That's My Story and I'm Sticking To It

Authors

  • Cindy Scott
  • Jen Rinaldi UOIT

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15353/cjds.v6i3.364

Keywords:

Oral history, institutionalization, scrapbooking, arts-informed methods, trauma

Abstract

Cindy Scott is a proud lesbian woman and a survivor of the Huronia Regional Centre (HRC), an institution that housed persons diagnosed with intellectual disabilities 1876-2009. She is known for her work in Orillia, Ontario speaking about institutionalization and on behalf of residents who died and were buried in the cemetery on HRC grounds. For the past four years, Cindy has been a co-researcher working with Recounting Huronia: a collective of researchers, artists, and survivors using arts-based and storytelling methods to return to and preserve lived memories of the HRC. The research team often operated in pairs, in monthly workshops that used scrapbooking, poetry, cabaret performance, and other arts-based methods to articulate traumatic memories. The stories told here came from workshop exchanges between Cindy and fellow Recounting Huronia member Jen Rinaldi, and are anchored in scrapbook entries they developed together in Recounting Huronia workshops. Cindy retold these stories for Jen to transcribe, and Jen has provided some context via footnotes. 

Published

2017-08-21

How to Cite

Scott, C., & Rinaldi, J. (2017). That’s My Story and I’m Sticking To It. Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, 6(3), 20–29. https://doi.org/10.15353/cjds.v6i3.364

Issue

Section

Oral Histories