Dr. Margot R. Challborn

At the School of Disability Studies, Margot is eager to begin her next project, titled: Madness, bodily autonomy, and citizenship: the “choice” of Medical Assistance in Dying in Canada. 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.