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Absences and rearticulations: 2SLGBTQ+ families and care/work Tuesday, May 30, 2023:
absences_and_rearticulations_2slgbtq_families_and_care_work.pptx
Our team took part in a panel of presentations called "Care Is Not a Tally Sheet: Reflections on the Care/Work Portrait as a Method for Rethinking and Remaking the Field of Gendered Divisions of Labour" (Doucet, A., Klostermann, J., de Laat, K., Fisher, L., Foster, K., Gibson, M., livingstone, b., Cooper, J., Urquhart, B., & Kader, U.). Our presentation was created by M. Gibson, b. livingstone, J. Cooper, and B. Urquhart, and describes some of the methodological challenges we encountered as we piloted the Care/Work Portrait in online interviews with 2SLGBTQ+ parents and their partners --... Read more about Absences and rearticulations: 2SLGBTQ+ families and care/work
Presentation to the Ontario Association of Mental Health Professionals Oct 2022 conference, at online, Saturday, October 1, 2022:
Neurodiversity_presentation_Josh_McGonegal_slidedeck.pdf
Josh McGonegal, who completed his MSW placement with the Neurodiversity Matters project, led the creation of a research poster and a slideshow presentation about the implications of the study for service providers (co-authored by M. Gibson and b. livingstone). The slides and the poster are attached. A video presentation was shared at the online conference in October 2022.  Read more about Presentation to the Ontario Association of Mental Health Professionals Oct 2022 conference
Neurodiversity and Care Work, at Care and the Recovery Economy: A Roundtable hosted by the Institute for Gender and the Economy, University of Toronto (Jan 26-7, Feb 2-3, 2022), Wednesday, February 2, 2022:
neurodiversity_and_care_m_gibson_feb_2022.pdf

This presentation contributed to conversations about the care economy and what research and policies we need in the pandemic/ recovery period. Some overall considerations of this brief talk focused on how to

i) complicate ideas of "care giver" and "care recipient",

ii) recognize the many forms of care work done by as well as with and for neurodiversity-identified/ neurodivergent people,

iii) identify systemic inadequacies as producing the need for care work such as advocacy and activism, and

iv) examine how restricted care policies (such as...

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VIDEO: Challenging practices in social services and education Friday, November 5, 2021:
neurodiversity_matters_presentation_nov_5_2021.pptx

Here is the YouTube link for a presentation by Neurodiversity Matters PI Meg Gibson, given online on November 5, 2021. You can find the slides attached.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjyTsEZtdLg 

Abstract

What is neurodiversity and why does it matter? This talk presents findings from a research project about how people are using the idea and language of neurodiversity. The team...

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VIDEO: Decolonizing Neurodiversity? Implications for Social Work Education, at CASWE-ACFTS Conference 2021, Thursday, June 3, 2021:
caswe-acfts-decolonizing_neurodiversity-june_3-pr-v1-0900.pdf

 

  • Lead Presenter - Margaret F. Gibson
  • Co-Presenter - Izumi Sakamoto
  • Co-Presenter - Hannah Monroe

 In this presentation, we discuss whether and how the term and ideas of neurodiversity might continue to exclude some within the community, particularly along the lines of race, perceived “functioning”, and gender. We ask, what might it mean to “decolonize” neurodiversity?

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