Reimagining the Runway explores how fashion can be reimagined as a site of relational care, co-creation, and inclusive representation particularly for IBPOC members (Indigenous, Black, and People of Colour) and individuals with disabilities.

Grounded in autoethnography and informed by disability justice as a theoretical foundation, this work draws from my lived experience as a Black woman, model, and designer.
I critically reflect on my participation in fashion shows, my personal history of racial and cultural conformity, and my evolving role within the industry not only as a designer or artist, but as a visionary, co-dreamer, and organizer engaged in meaningful work.

Through intentional interviews with disabled and IBPOC fashion community members, I engage in careful conversations that inform the textures of this research.

Taking up the role of curator is not simply as a selector of objects, but as one who co-dreams structures of belonging, I position myself within a methodology of fashioning disability and racial justice. This framework will provide a means to radically rethink how bodies are read, styled, and valued on and off the runway.

I reframe the runway as a site not of spectacle or solution, but of possibility. A place where designer, model, and maker intertwine into one another, and where fashion becomes an embodied call toward interdependence and joy.
The research inquiry of this study is: How might it become a space of shared authorship and healing? How can we co-create a culture where disabled and racialized individuals are not only welcome but deeply celebrated?

The outcomes of this research will take the form of a reflective autoethnographic MRP and a final creative production: a Reimagined Runway show. This show will center will people I have recruited across creative spaces including photographers, stylists, designers, and individuals with disabilities bringing together a diverse community of participants.

Reimaganing the Runway fosters a space of belonging where individuals are not only seen but heard, valued, and celebrated through this experience.
The research will examine their thoughts and emotions as they move through a fashion environment designed with care, co-creation and joy at its core.