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Professor, Feminist and Gender Studies | Political Studies, University of Ottawa
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Michael Orsini @morsini.bsky.social · Sep 17
Great to co author with an amazing doctoral student Darby Babin !
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Everywhere universities are under assault. Some are shooting themselves. www.bbc.com/news/article...
China intimidated UK university to ditch human rights research, documents show
Sheffield Hallam University apologises to Professor Laura Murphy for restricting her academic freedom.
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November 3, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Great to co author with an amazing doctoral student Darby Babin !
September 17, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Join @ottawahealthlaw.ca Oct 2–3 for a national conference: Reframing Mental Health Law: Emerging Controversies and Cross-Sector Perspectives. Keynotes: @Kwame_McKenzie & Dr. Tracy Vaillancourt. Student rates available. Hope to see you there! www.ottawahealthlaw.ca/conferences/...
Reframing Mental Health Law – Emerging Controversies and Cross-Sector Perspectives
Conference @University of Ottawa October 2/3, 2025
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September 3, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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At a time when LGBTQI+ rights are under attack around the world, some countries are decriminalizing same-sex relations. My analysis of the case of Mauritius is now available on the Politics, Groups, and Identities journal website. Free to download. 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🌍 doi.org/10.1080/2156...
Journal article "Escaping the multicultural trap: strategic: litigation and the decriminalization of same-sex relations in Mauritius", by Stephen Brown, University of Ottawa. Abstract: Mauritius is widely praised for policies that have minimized tensions between ethno-religious groups. Other types of groups, however, are excluded from that sociopolitical ordering of society. In particular, LGBTQI+ Mauritians have long been stigmatized and criminalized by an anti-sodomy law, enacted by the British colonial administration. Despite a reputation for a strong commitment to human rights, the Mauritian government never repealed that law. Drawing in large part on interviews with LGBTQI+ activists in Mauritius, this article analyzes how and why they challenged that anti-sodomy law in court, what they achieved and what the implications are. It argues that the state’s and political parties’ emphasis on traditional cultures made it difficult to convince the government to act, leaving strategic litigation as the best option for getting LGBTQI+ rights recognized. Grounded primarily in constitutionally guaranteed rights and harnessing support from international nonstate actors, their court cases succeeded in carving out greater space for LGBTQI+ rights within the conservative multicultural framework, even though the verdict was rather limited in scope. Significant pressure will be needed to achieve more political and social change, potentially including more strategic litigation, which poses a significant challenge to LGBTQI+ activists.
August 13, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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Do you love what we do, pals? It's time to take your shot to join our Board of Directors! We're particularly looking for someone who can strengthen our fundraising/grant-making work (so we can keep the lights on and do the stuff we need to do!)

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July 3, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Thanks so much for including our piece, "Emotions and anti-carceral advocacy in Canada: ‘All of the anger this creates in our bodies is also a tool to kill us’" on your student reading list!
policy-politics.bsky.social Policy & Politics @policy-politics.bsky.social · Jul 2
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policy-politics.bsky.social Policy & Politics @policy-politics.bsky.social · Jul 2
Need help curating your course materials? Want to brush up on the freshest research before term starts? The Policy & Politics student reading list is here! 🎓🌟

Access the full list for free until 31 October policyandpoliticsblog.com/2025/07/02/u...

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July 2, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio hailed the end of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) as a new analysis found that its demolition could contribute to 14 million deaths in the next five years.
Rubio hails end of USAID as study says its elimination could contribute to 14 million deaths in next 5 years | CNN Politics
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio hailed the end of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) Tuesday as a new analysis found that its demolition could contribute to 14 million deaths in the...
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July 1, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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Thrilled to share this new article I co-authored with Megan Linton! We explore the ways that Canadian disability housing policy is 'haunted' by systemic ableism. Read it to discover how Canada continues to exclude, eliminate and extract from people with disabilities through supported housing.
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A Haunting Legacy: Systemic Ableism in Canadian Housing Policy for People Labelled with Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities cup.org/4kEVc05
Daniel Dickson @usask.bsky.social & Megan Linton
@carleton.ca
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June 17, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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A Haunting Legacy: Systemic Ableism in Canadian Housing Policy for People Labelled with Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities cup.org/4kEVc05
Daniel Dickson @usask.bsky.social & Megan Linton
@carleton.ca
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June 17, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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excellent piece on systemic ableism in housing policy by Dickson and Linton. open access. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
A Haunting Legacy: Systemic Ableism in Canadian Housing Policy for People Labelled with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities | Canadian Journal of Political Science/Revue canadienne de science ...
A Haunting Legacy: Systemic Ableism in Canadian Housing Policy for People Labelled with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
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June 17, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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With Canada's federal election less than a week away, where do the various political parties stand on foreign aid and what should we expect once the winner is declared? For my answers to those questions, check out my new blog post. www.mcleodgroup.ca/2025/04/elec...
Election 2025: What are the parties saying about foreign aid? - The McLeod Group
McLeod Group blog by Stephen Brown, April 23, 2025 The recent turmoil in Washington has reshaped Canada’s 2025 election campaign, driving fundamental discussions on how Canada should position itself i...
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April 23, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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38 of the 43.

"38 of 43 experts cut last month from boards that review science and research in NIH laboratories are female, Black or Hispanic.

"The scientists typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal..."

www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...
Women, minorities fired in purge of NIH science review boards
Scientists, with expertise in fields that include mental health, cancer and infectious disease, typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal.
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April 17, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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RFK Jr. says there are no autistic poets, so we interviewed one.

Hear from Elizabeth McClellan, @popelizbet.bsky.social, an award-winning poet, attorney, and legal educator based in Memphis, Tennessee.
RFK Jr. says there aren't autistic poets. We asked an autistic poet.
"I will challenge RFK Jr. to write a poem as good as me any day of the week."
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April 17, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Project MUSE - Native American and Indigenous Studies: Volume 12, Issue 1, Spring 2025 muse.jhu.edu/issue/54601
April 17, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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Can you win a Pulitzer because someone put you on a chat group by mistake?
March 24, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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Who could have predicted this other than everyone
timcarvell.bsky.social Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · Mar 23
School Bully Shocks Nerds With Further Lunch-Money Demands
"I will tell you right now that Columbia has not in my opinion - and the opinion of the Department of Justice - has not cleaned up their act," Mr. Terrell said. "They're not even close, not even close to having those funds unfrozen."
March 23, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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When the Pine Needles Fall, EllenGabriel and my's new book, was #2 on the independent bookseller's bestseller list for January! Thank you all for supporting this book, and shop local/independent when you can: btlbooks.com/book/when-th...
March 5, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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Today is the release date for the French edition of Ellen Gabriel and my’s book, When the Pine Needles Fall! www.editions-rm.ca/livres/quand...
February 25, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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The Institute of Feminist and Gender Studies welcomes Katsi’tsakwas Ellen Gabriel as our keynote for the Shirley Greenberg Annual Lecture. She is joined by Professor Audra Simpson (Columbia University). Free. ASL provided. Registration link here:
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Text Indigenous Acts of Resistance in white against green/orange backdrop. Shirley Greenberg Annual Lecture Katsi'tsakwas Ellen Gabriel, Author of When the Pine Needles Fall: Indigenous Acts of Resistance. Image of Indigenous women Ellen Gabriel and Audra Simpson on right of poster. Below image of Simpson it reads: in conversation with Audra Simpson, Professor Columbia University.
February 25, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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Should I use this as an opportunity to start over and actually be A Professional Adult on this app? Hard to say!

But if you like open access academic articles, here’s one from me to you. And yes I did cite my fave film critic @judysquirrels.bsky.social ✨

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Genderqueer reflections on Weird Barbie - Darby M. Babin, 2024
For better or worse, Barbie (2023) was part of a summer blockbuster phenonemon. Much of the fanfare around the film included conersations about feminism, ‘girlh...
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November 14, 2024 at 12:14 AM
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Ontario universities are cut to the bone. They're being financially strangled by the Ford government, via a merciless, stupid tuition freeze and the lowest per student funding in Canada, ever. If this gov't is re-elected, one of the best uni systems in the world is dead.
emmettmacfarlane.com Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · Jan 27
Just received another update from our University Provost on the budget crisis. It includes what I believe is the first explicit statement that there will be some real big job cuts over the next three years. No specifics yet.
January 27, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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Looking for some high impact research to read over the holidays? 🎁Check out our most cited papers of 2024. They’re free to access until the end of Jan 😍
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Top 10 most highly cited articles published in 2024 – free to access until 31 January 2025 1. Policy learning governance: a new perspective on agency across policy learning theories Bishoy Zaki 2. Types of learning and varieties of innovation: how does policy learning enable policy innovation? Nihit Goyal and Michael Howlett 3. Crisis management in English local government: the limits of resilience Tania Arrieta and Jonathan S. Davies 4. Expert perspectives on the changing dynamics of policy advisory systems: the COVID-19 crisis and policy learning in Belgium and Australia Marleen Easton, Jennifer Yarnold, Valerie Vervaenen, Jasper De Paepe, and Brian W. Head 5. Social identities, emotions and policy preferences Johanna Hornung and Nils C. Bandelow 6. The democratising capacity of new municipalism: beyond direct democracy in public- common partnerships Iolanda Bianchi 7. The politics of anger: emotional appraisal mechanisms and the French pension reform protests Johanna Kuhlmann and Peter Starke 8. Emotions and anti-carceral advocacy in Canada: ‘All of the anger this creates in our bodies is also a tool to kill us’ Jennifer M. Kilty and Michael Orsini 9. The challenges experts face during creeping crises: the curse of complacency Ahmad Wesal Zaman, Olivier Rubin, and Reidar Staupe-Delgado 10. Identifying proactive and reactive policy entrepreneurs in collaborative networks in flood risk management Per Becker, Jörgen Sparf, and Evangelia Petridou
December 19, 2024 at 8:55 AM
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Free access to our article until Jan 31st. doi.org/10.1332/0305...
Emotions and anti-carceral advocacy in Canada: ‘All of the anger this creates in our bodies is also a tool to kill us’
Over the past three decades, Canada has expanded its capacity to confine citizens in ways that disproportionately affect Black, Indigenous and People of Colour (BIPOC) communities and people grappling...
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December 9, 2024 at 11:54 AM