Dear Disability Justice Allies:

Our beloved Theodore Walker Robinson is in hospital recovering from complications from COVID. Too often sick and disabled BIPOC live precariously and end up supporting each other.

Theodore Walker Robinson is a new member of our downtown community and is very sick with complications from COVID and is in hospital at Toronto General.

What better way to welcome Theodore than by raising $10 000 to support them while in hospital and as they recover? Crip communities have shown up so hard while Theo’s been in hospital and we are all so thankful.

We are often the ones taking care of each other and making sure we are safe. Now’s the time for allies outside of crip community to show up and support an incredible disabled and Mad arts leader. It’s also so important for non-Black folks to show up for disabled and Mad Black folks in these precarious times! <3

We are raising towards their immediate recovery. Please donate and share this with people in your networks!

We will be fundraising towards Theordore’s much needed guide dog later this season- their need for a guide dog has become urgent due to complications from COVID coupled with their move to downtown from the quiet suburbs - more on this next season.

About Theodore:

​​Theodore Walker Robinson (they/them) is a Black, low-vision, hard-of-hearing, trans-nonbinary broadcaster, scholar, fashion designer and multi-disciplinary artist. Theodore was born to parents of Maroon Jamaican and Afro-Chinese Trinidadian descent who settled in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in the early 1970s. They are a creative consultant based in Toronto and Executive Director of Lakeshore Arts in South Etobicoke. As a consultant and emerging arts nonprofit executive, Theodore focuses on providing recommendations to arts and culture agencies on accessibility for people with disabilities based on lived experience. They are a regular host on the Luminato Festival Toronto’s Radio LUMI and an ambassador for Brampton Arts Organization. As a singer, Theodore explores transgender voices in Jazz application.

As a visual artist and designer, Theodore explores African textile making in sustainable circular economies. As a scholar, Theodore earned an Hon. B.A. in Comparative Literature & Religion from McMaster University (2008) an M.A. from Queen's University in Religion and Modern Fundamentalism (2009) and an M.A. from The University of Sheffield focusing on Biblical Research. Theodore's research investigates Black Blind Artistic communities and sustainable economies. Theodore was certified in Narrative Therapy at Sick Kids Mental Health Learning Institute.

As an activist, Theodore has served as a Board member for Black Mental Health Canada in its early stages, is currently Board Vice-Chair at Moyo Health & Community Services which is soon opening Peel Region's first Safe Consumption Site, and Board Chair of The Disability Collective. Some of Theodore's additional social justice consulting work has included Special Advisory consultation for FoodShare Toronto, Regent Park's Anti-Black Racism Action Program, Peel District School Board and the City of Mississauga. As a Federal political candidate in 2021, and the first out Black Transgender politician in Mississauga, Theodore earned record voter turnout for their party. Theodore is a mentor to Black Queer Disabled Artists and envisions creating intentional artistic community and culturally relevant skills training programs for Afro-Caribbean and Black Blind individuals that supports personal and communal economic and social empowerment.

Thank you so much for supporting Theodore! Thank you all for sharing this and donating, and for helping Theodore to recover!

Syrus Marcus Ware & Heidi Mehta & Theodore Walker Robinson