Xander Peer Keller (they/them) is a disabled, chronically ill queer facilitator, dancer, storyteller, and Touch Activist who has spent more than a decade experimenting with how we find each other across difference.
They’re the founder of Held Together, a disability justice project working toward a world where being disabled doesn’t mean being alone. Their work plays with touch and movement, racial bridging, queer and trans experience, ritual, grief, pleasure, and interdependence.
Disability and chronic illness have changed pretty much everything about how Xander moves through the world—including their relationship with their body, dependence, and care. They believe disability demands innovation and creativity—not as an extra, but often as a lifeline. Ritual, spirituality, dance, storytelling, and making weird things together have all become part of how they explore that.
Xander is especially interested in bridging—across racial lines, between disabled and nondisabled people, and across different bodies, identities, and ways of moving through the world. Their work is an ongoing, sometimes messy experiment in what happens when we get curious, reach toward each other across difference, and see what we can make together.