Winner of the International Latino Book Awards' Best Educational Children's Picture Book in English. Fritsch and McGuire had an abstract sense of what the book might look like and invited Trejos to collaborate.

We Move Together is full of practical magic. It’s grounded in a world children will recognize—full of ice cream, public transit, parks, and play—but it opens up possibilities of worlds and futures we dream of. It invites us to think and talk about disability and difference with love and respect. The best kind of book about changing the world, We Move Together doesn’t tell us how we should change things, it just reminds us that we can." After discovering this in a roundabout, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day quest, I am just so impressed by this book. I keep opening it up again to look at it. Fritsch is also Director of the Disability Justice and Crip Culture Collaboratory, a recently formed research lab at Carleton that brings together disabled scholars, activists, artists, and designers working at the convergence of crip and disability arts, technoscience, and justice.Our overarching goal was to share some of the transformative joy we’veexperienced in disability community as disabled people, disability studies scholars, and disability activists. We wanted to create a book that is anti-oppressive in its depictions of disability,showcasing positive representations of disabled communities. We also wanted to demonstrate that disability is a political identity, to show readers how our positive experiences of disability can be curtailed by social injustices like inaccessibility and ableism. And that these injustices arewrapped up with the concerns of other social movements,” explains Fritsch. Lydia X. Z. Brown, disability justice advocate and founder/director of Fund for Community Reparations for Autistic People of Color's Interdependence, Survival, & Empowerment We Move Together makes me want to move with joy! Finally there is a book I can share with my kiddo that expresses the joy of disability community; the playfulness of different ways of moving; and the fun of creating access—while also showing the challenges of ableism. This book can grow with my daughter as she goes from asking questions about the beautifully illustrated pictures and engaging words, to when she can grapple with the many key ideas of disability justice provided at the end of the book. A delightful and much needed celebration of disability community, and most importantly, as my daughter says, it's fun!"

With all these projects on the go, there are no immediate plans for a second children's book. “But” says Fritsch, “it’s something we’re considering.” A month ago Dr. Suess Enterprises took the decision to stop publishing six books. These include a number you may not be familiar with such as “If I Ran the Zoo” and “And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street”. The reason for the decision was that these contain racist and insensitive imagery. These efforts should be encouraged. Likewise newly written and published works by others that try to raise awareness of important social issues among a young readership. We Move Together importantly centers characters and communities that are typically underrepresented in children’s literature. According to a report published in the Toronto Star, only 3.8% of Canadian children’s books published in 2019 featured a character with a visible disability and only 1.7% featured a character with an invisible disability. We Move Together is is truly unique in its expansive representation of diverse bodies, minds and experiences: readers are introduced to a mixed-ability, multi-racial, many gendered, and intergenerational cast of characters who are united by their desire to build a more accessible world. Fritsch’s academic work is primarily situated in critical disability studies but also expansively draws on feminist science and technology studies, political economy, and critical criminology.From taking up the ways disabled people have designed their own accessibility tools, to the effects of neoliberalism on disability communities, to research looking at how disabled people are caught up in carceral systems of institutionalization and criminalization, an underpinning of all of Fritsch’s research is an ardent effort to advocate for different futures for disabled people.Frictions engages ethnographic, narrative, and artistic research-creation practices to recast the standard practices and foundational principles of solid organ transplant,” Fritsch explains. “The project uses creative methods to probe the ways medical utility and technoscientific possibility can be at odds with the lived experiences of heart, liver, and kidney transplant recipients.” However, quite a few stories were hard to read and felt without a purpose in between the more moving stories. At times I had to put the book down as I wasn’t following or understanding the purpose of those few stories. For me, they felt a bit out of place in this book.