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**Update: March 12th, 2023**Unfortunately, due to travel issues, Dr. Challborn is unable to make it to Lethbridge to faciliate this workshop. The Monday afternoon lecture will still take place (via Teams Webinar), and we hope to be able to reschedule the workshop soon! Apologies for any inconvenience. This workshop will engage participants in exploring and applying critical disability and mad studies frameworks to analyse legislation and social policy. Participants will engage in experiential learning activities to apply with CD and MS frameworks to Canada's Medical Assistance in Dying legislation, paying special attention to issues surrounding MAiD and "mental illness"

Dr. Challborn is the Ethel Louise Armstrong Post-Doctoral Fellow in the School of Disability Studies at Toronto Metropolitan University. Her doctoral research (Department of Political Science, University of Alberta) examined the governance of intimate life in Canada via expansions to legal parentage for polyconjugal families. In her dissertation, Complicated Love: Parentage, Conjugality, and Family Diversity in Canada, she argued that current reforms to legal parentage, and judicial decisions surrounding poly-conjugal multi-parentage recognition, still adhere to the hetero/homo-normative, monogamous (or “monogamish”), nuclear family form. Moreover, the expansion of multi-parentage in some contexts is made possible by the ongoing criminalization of the deviant, racialized, polygamous “other”. While her doctoral research focuses on the governance of intimate life via parentage and spousal relationships, her postdoctoral research shifts the focus of relationships with others to one’s relationship with death (and thus also, to life). In this way, she extends her current focus on queer, critical race, and feminist approaches to intimacy and governance, to the intersections of intimacy, race, and ability. Margot’s work emerges from her lived experience as a queer, mad-identified, woman of colour.