Skylar Cameron

Skylar Cameron is a Doctor of Musical Arts candidate in Voice Performance with a Collaborative Specialization in Sexual Diversity Studies at the University of Toronto and a member of the Centre for Global Disability Studies. Their dissertation, Unruly Vocality: A Phenomenological and Arts-Based Exploration of Disabled Professional Classical Singers Experiences, examines how disabled singers navigate and resist systemic ableism and chrononormativity within the classical music industry. Drawing from critical disability studies, queer theory, and phenomenology, Skylar explores how fluctuating access, and nonlinear artistic practices challenge dominant norms in classical singing. Their work draws on crip and queer aesthetics—embracing fragmentation, fluidity, and embodied knowledge—to reimagine artistic excellence. Through arts-based methods, including autoethnography, interviews, and a final sound collage, the project expands what academic scholarship can sound like, centering disabled modes of expression as both research and artistic intervention.