For over a decade, I have been involved in migrant, 2SLGBTQ+ and disability related research and advocacy. In 2024, I travelled to advocate for the rights of women and gender-diverse people with disabilities at the United Nations in Geneva. I have presented at the Department of Justice, the BC Labour Union, and several Universities and Colleges, as well as written, researched and edited several extensive research reports, parliamentary briefs, articles and have conducted digital accessibility audits. My professional and creative work has been published widely, including in THIS Magazine, EVENT Mag, The Mainlander, Briarpatch Magazine, Empty Mirror and elsewhere.
For inquiries about writing, advocacy or anything else, please email me at bara.acupuncture@gmail.com
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New Infinity
Metatron Press
2022
New Infinity is an experimental novella that follows a woman as she lives and dreams her way through the philosophical implications of autoimmune disease. Met by a labyrinth of closing doors, she searches for meaning and connection among fragmented realities and failed relationships, finding infinitude in the healing process of bibliomancy.
Bára Hladík’s New Infinity is a glittering cross-genre debut. Weaving surrealist stories with meditative poetics, Hladík invites you into a dream world of degenerative illness, left disordered by the failures of ableism, medical professionals, and late-stage capitalism. Here, everything runs on sick time. Where physical health and financial resources grow scarce, the restorative possibilities of queer love, divination, and self-reclamation grant a defiant, yet often tenuous, abundance. Alive with Hladík’s boundless insight and wit, New Infinity is a powerful addition to the collective body of disability literature.
Publications
Submission to UN CEDAW
DAWN CANADA
October 2024
Digital Accessibility Audit
Grunt Gallery
2024
Act on the Facts
DAWN CANADA
April 2019
Displacement of Disabled Voices
THE MAINLANDER
November 2015
Institutional Burden Politics
THE TALON
November 2015
Public Speaking
RIGHTS OF WOMEN AND
GENDER-DIVERSE PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES
United Nations
Geneva, Switzerland
2024
INTERSECTIONS OF 2SLGBTQ
PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES
DAWN Canada
Montreal, QC
2024
ON DISABILITY & MIGRATION
Columbia College
Vancouver, BC
2020
EMPLOYMENT ACCESSIBILITY
BC Labour Union
Vancouver, BC
2020
POETICS OF LISTENING
Concordia University
Montreal, QC
2020
HUMAN RIGHTS & ACCESS
Department of Justice Canada
Montreal, QC
2019
BARA ACU 