M F Gibson
Biographic Data
| ID | 18379 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M F Gibson |
| GIVEN NAMES | M F |
| FAMILY NAME | Gibson |
| SIGNATURE | GIBSON M F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4568-4798 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 55 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 29 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Toward a Feminist Ethics of Peer Review
Between Climate Realities and Just Climate Futures
“The Paradigm Shift Is Happening Without Them”
The concept of neurodiversity poses a challenge to service providers, urging them to shift away from pathologizing frameworks and exclusionary notions of expertise. More research is needed on how to build upon the concept of neurodiversity to improve direct practice with neurodivergent individuals and communities. This paper presents findings from interviews with 60 differently positioned people in Southern Ontario, Canada, about how they used th…
On thin ICE
“The refusal to fit into boxes”
What do people with Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) think about neurodiversity? How does it affect what they do? While a burgeoning body of scholarship has examined the concept of neurodiversity, this work has often restricted its focus to autism, or addressed more general ideas about neurodivergence. Little existing research explores what neurodiversity means to people with ADHD. This paper presents a subset of findings from a mu…
Teaching Resistance
Unyielding
LGBTQ+ Parents' Care and Work Arrangements During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Existing research on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on parents' care and work responsibilities has largely ignored the experiences of LGBTQ+ parents. Most gender divisions of labor studies have actively excluded LGBTQ+ parents and/or failed to ask about parents' sexuality. This mixed-methods study used a combination of an online survey (n = 4683, 350 identifying as non-heterosexual) and virtual interviews (9 interviews with 14 parents) in co…
Critical Feminism Under Critical Conditions
What are we even here for? AI, Critical Feminism, and Social Work Scholarship
Are We Bridging the Gap? The Social Work Practice of Critical Feminism
Doing the Messy Work
The Game of Queer Family Life
In this article we describe and analyze five videos created through an arts-informed research project, Precarious Inclusion: Studying Ontarian 2SLGBTQI+ parents' experiences childrearing in a post-legal parity framework. Precarious Inclusion used interviews and digital storytelling to investigate Ontario 2SLGBTQI+ parents' current experiences of inclusion and exclusion when navigating institutional and social interactions in everyday life in a po…
Observing Neurodiversity, Observing Methodology
Ethnographic researchers have long relied upon observation as a powerful means to learn about social relations. This paper discusses research observation that was conducted as a part of an institutional ethnography (IE) investigating how people use the language and ideas of neurodiversity across different settings. While our research protocol initially called for ethnographic observation to take place at in-person events in Southern Ontario, our …
A Structural Analysis of Gender-Based Violence and Depression in the Lives of Sexual Minority Women and Trans People
This article explores structural mechanisms that are the context for violence and depression in the lives of sexual minority women and trans people in Ontario, Canada. The article draws on interviews with 14 people who reported experiences of depression in the previous year, foregrounding three representative narratives. Narrative and case study analysis reveal that violence is a repeated and cumulative experience over lifetimes, occurring across…
Positionality in Critical Feminist Scholarship
Weighing In
Neurodiversity as a concept, identity, and movement has radically challenged pre-existing ideas of human difference and value. First proposed by Judy Singer (1998) and largely developed through the work of community activists, neurodiversity posits an alternative to pathologizing and medicalized understandings of human differences. This article explores the ways neurodiversity is being used, defined, and deployed based on a corpus of 94 academic …
Storytelling methods on the move
This article takes up multimedia storytelling and interference as methods on the move in and beyond critical Autism studies and considers their contributions to post and qualitative studies in education. We write as a collective of Autistic and non-Autistic researchers, kin, artists, and educators. We think generatively about the tensions of trying to do anti-normative research through a multimedia storytelling project about Autism justice in edu…
Critical Feminisms
The Helpful Brain? Translations of Neuroscience into Social Work
What do the many translations of ‘the brain’ from the domain of neuroscience offer to social work researchers? Drawing upon disability studies and critical social work, this article examines trends and tensions across ‘neuro’ writing in social work journals and summarises some commonly recommended practices. Neuroscientific discourse has undeniable cultural influence and offers distinctive forms of evidence to social workers. Social work scholars…
Re-storying autism
This paper presents and analyzes six short first-person films produced through a collaborative multimedia storytelling workshop series focused on experiences of autism, education and inclusion. The aim of the project is to co-create new understandings of autism beyond functionalist and biomedical ones that reify autism as a problem of disordered brains and underpin special education. We fashion a body becoming disability studies in education appr…
Parent Advocacy” as an Ideological Code
What does the work that LGBTQ parents do to find resources for their disabled children reveal about the social organization of services? This article presents findings from an institutional ethnography study based on interviews with 15 lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and/or queer (LGBTQ) parents and six key community informants in Toronto, Canada. The analysis focused on the work parents did to engage with disability service systems on behal…
Predator, Pet Lesbian, or Just The Nanny? LGBTQ Parents of Children With Disabilities Describe Categorization
How are lesbian/gay/bisexual/trans/queer (LGBTQ) parents of children with disabilities categorized by service providers, and how do parents anticipate, interpret, and respond to such categorizations? This intersectional study investigated the experiences of LGBTQ parents of children with disabilities with service providers in Toronto, Canada. Parents described pressures to "fit" into providers' limited understanding of family. Some parents descri…
Depression and discrimination in the lives of women, transgender and gender liminal people in Ontario, Canada
This article uses an intersectionality lens to explore how experiences of race, gender, sexuality, class and their intersections are associated with depression and unmet need for mental healthcare in a population of 704 women and transgender/gender liminal people from Ontario, Canada. A survey collecting demographic information, information about mental health and use of mental healthcare services, and data for the Everyday Discrimination Scale a…
This is real now because it’s a piece of paper’
What role do texts play in LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer) parents’ experiences of disability service systems? In interviews with 15 LGBTQ parents of disabled children in Toronto, Canada, participants selected documents to be used as a focus for discussion. Parents considered how LGBTQ identity and other intersectional identities influenced their experiences of institutional texts including adoption certificates, intake for…
Positionality in Critical Feminist Scholarship
Re-storying autism
This paper presents and analyzes six short first-person films produced through a collaborative multimedia storytelling workshop series focused on experiences of autism, education and inclusion. The aim of the project is to co-create new understandings of autism beyond functionalist and biomedical ones that reify autism as a problem of disordered brains and underpin special education. We fashion a body becoming disability studies in education appr…
Critical Feminisms
Predator, Pet Lesbian, or Just The Nanny? LGBTQ Parents of Children With Disabilities Describe Categorization
How are lesbian/gay/bisexual/trans/queer (LGBTQ) parents of children with disabilities categorized by service providers, and how do parents anticipate, interpret, and respond to such categorizations? This intersectional study investigated the experiences of LGBTQ parents of children with disabilities with service providers in Toronto, Canada. Parents described pressures to "fit" into providers' limited understanding of family. Some parents descri…
Depression and discrimination in the lives of women, transgender and gender liminal people in Ontario, Canada
This article uses an intersectionality lens to explore how experiences of race, gender, sexuality, class and their intersections are associated with depression and unmet need for mental healthcare in a population of 704 women and transgender/gender liminal people from Ontario, Canada. A survey collecting demographic information, information about mental health and use of mental healthcare services, and data for the Everyday Discrimination Scale a…
Intersecting Deviance
Journal Article Intersecting Deviance: Social Work, Difference and the Legacy of Eugenics Get access Margaret F. Gibson Margaret F. Gibson * *Correspondence to Margaret F. Gibson, Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, 246 Bloor Street West, Toronto, ON M5S 1V4, Canada. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Social Work, Volume 45, Issue 1, January 2015…
Weighing In
Neurodiversity as a concept, identity, and movement has radically challenged pre-existing ideas of human difference and value. First proposed by Judy Singer (1998) and largely developed through the work of community activists, neurodiversity posits an alternative to pathologizing and medicalized understandings of human differences. This article explores the ways neurodiversity is being used, defined, and deployed based on a corpus of 94 academic …
This is real now because it’s a piece of paper’
What role do texts play in LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer) parents’ experiences of disability service systems? In interviews with 15 LGBTQ parents of disabled children in Toronto, Canada, participants selected documents to be used as a focus for discussion. Parents considered how LGBTQ identity and other intersectional identities influenced their experiences of institutional texts including adoption certificates, intake for…
Unyielding
Doing the Messy Work
The Game of Queer Family Life
In this article we describe and analyze five videos created through an arts-informed research project, Precarious Inclusion: Studying Ontarian 2SLGBTQI+ parents' experiences childrearing in a post-legal parity framework. Precarious Inclusion used interviews and digital storytelling to investigate Ontario 2SLGBTQI+ parents' current experiences of inclusion and exclusion when navigating institutional and social interactions in everyday life in a po…
Storytelling methods on the move
This article takes up multimedia storytelling and interference as methods on the move in and beyond critical Autism studies and considers their contributions to post and qualitative studies in education. We write as a collective of Autistic and non-Autistic researchers, kin, artists, and educators. We think generatively about the tensions of trying to do anti-normative research through a multimedia storytelling project about Autism justice in edu…
Parent Advocacy” as an Ideological Code
What does the work that LGBTQ parents do to find resources for their disabled children reveal about the social organization of services? This article presents findings from an institutional ethnography study based on interviews with 15 lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and/or queer (LGBTQ) parents and six key community informants in Toronto, Canada. The analysis focused on the work parents did to engage with disability service systems on behal…
Critical Feminism Under Critical Conditions
Development and Initial Evaluation of the Cyber-Counseling Objective Structured Clinical Examination (Cosce)
Objectives: This study developed and validated the Cyber-Counseling Objective Structured Clinical Examination (COSCE), a method and tool used to assess the competence level of trainees and professionals who practice cyber-counseling. Method: The COSCE’s development involved the creation of a cyber-counseling performance rating scale and two simulated client scenarios, and the recruitment and training of three raters. The COSCE was tested on six m…
Development and Initial Evaluation of the Cyber-Counseling Objective Structured Clinical Examination (Cosce)
Objectives: This study developed and validated the Cyber-Counseling Objective Structured Clinical Examination (COSCE), a method and tool used to assess the competence level of trainees and professionals who practice cyber-counseling. Method: The COSCE’s development involved the creation of a cyber-counseling performance rating scale and two simulated client scenarios, and the recruitment and training of three raters. The COSCE was tested on six m…
A mark that is no mark? Queer women and violence in HIV discourse
Lesbian, bisexual and queer women are invisible and ignored in HIV discourse, as epidemiological classifications result in their institutionalised exclusion from risk categories. Simultaneously, these women live with HIV, often in situations of societal exclusion and under threat of violence. In this paper, we consider the connections between discourse and violence to examine how both are reproduced through, applied to and dependent upon people. …
Adopting Difference
Discussions of “gay adoption” in North America have been loaded onto existing political constructs of citizenship, reproduction, and gender. Through a primary focus on a government-commissioned report from Ontario, Canada, this article considers how strategic references to adoption by gay men are deployed to support particular visions of a state and its citizenry. Drawing upon transnational feminist theory, this analysis traces the ways that lang…
Intersecting Deviance
Journal Article Intersecting Deviance: Social Work, Difference and the Legacy of Eugenics Get access Margaret F. Gibson Margaret F. Gibson * *Correspondence to Margaret F. Gibson, Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, 246 Bloor Street West, Toronto, ON M5S 1V4, Canada. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Social Work, Volume 45, Issue 1, January 2015…
This is real now because it’s a piece of paper’
What role do texts play in LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer) parents’ experiences of disability service systems? In interviews with 15 LGBTQ parents of disabled children in Toronto, Canada, participants selected documents to be used as a focus for discussion. Parents considered how LGBTQ identity and other intersectional identities influenced their experiences of institutional texts including adoption certificates, intake for…
Depression and discrimination in the lives of women, transgender and gender liminal people in Ontario, Canada
This article uses an intersectionality lens to explore how experiences of race, gender, sexuality, class and their intersections are associated with depression and unmet need for mental healthcare in a population of 704 women and transgender/gender liminal people from Ontario, Canada. A survey collecting demographic information, information about mental health and use of mental healthcare services, and data for the Everyday Discrimination Scale a…
Parent Advocacy” as an Ideological Code
What does the work that LGBTQ parents do to find resources for their disabled children reveal about the social organization of services? This article presents findings from an institutional ethnography study based on interviews with 15 lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and/or queer (LGBTQ) parents and six key community informants in Toronto, Canada. The analysis focused on the work parents did to engage with disability service systems on behal…
Predator, Pet Lesbian, or Just The Nanny? LGBTQ Parents of Children With Disabilities Describe Categorization
How are lesbian/gay/bisexual/trans/queer (LGBTQ) parents of children with disabilities categorized by service providers, and how do parents anticipate, interpret, and respond to such categorizations? This intersectional study investigated the experiences of LGBTQ parents of children with disabilities with service providers in Toronto, Canada. Parents described pressures to "fit" into providers' limited understanding of family. Some parents descri…
Re-storying autism
This paper presents and analyzes six short first-person films produced through a collaborative multimedia storytelling workshop series focused on experiences of autism, education and inclusion. The aim of the project is to co-create new understandings of autism beyond functionalist and biomedical ones that reify autism as a problem of disordered brains and underpin special education. We fashion a body becoming disability studies in education appr…
Critical Feminisms
The Helpful Brain? Translations of Neuroscience into Social Work
What do the many translations of ‘the brain’ from the domain of neuroscience offer to social work researchers? Drawing upon disability studies and critical social work, this article examines trends and tensions across ‘neuro’ writing in social work journals and summarises some commonly recommended practices. Neuroscientific discourse has undeniable cultural influence and offers distinctive forms of evidence to social workers. Social work scholars…
Storytelling methods on the move
This article takes up multimedia storytelling and interference as methods on the move in and beyond critical Autism studies and considers their contributions to post and qualitative studies in education. We write as a collective of Autistic and non-Autistic researchers, kin, artists, and educators. We think generatively about the tensions of trying to do anti-normative research through a multimedia storytelling project about Autism justice in edu…
A Structural Analysis of Gender-Based Violence and Depression in the Lives of Sexual Minority Women and Trans People
This article explores structural mechanisms that are the context for violence and depression in the lives of sexual minority women and trans people in Ontario, Canada. The article draws on interviews with 14 people who reported experiences of depression in the previous year, foregrounding three representative narratives. Narrative and case study analysis reveal that violence is a repeated and cumulative experience over lifetimes, occurring across…
Positionality in Critical Feminist Scholarship
Weighing In
Neurodiversity as a concept, identity, and movement has radically challenged pre-existing ideas of human difference and value. First proposed by Judy Singer (1998) and largely developed through the work of community activists, neurodiversity posits an alternative to pathologizing and medicalized understandings of human differences. This article explores the ways neurodiversity is being used, defined, and deployed based on a corpus of 94 academic …
Critical Feminism Under Critical Conditions
What are we even here for? AI, Critical Feminism, and Social Work Scholarship
Are We Bridging the Gap? The Social Work Practice of Critical Feminism
Doing the Messy Work
The Game of Queer Family Life
In this article we describe and analyze five videos created through an arts-informed research project, Precarious Inclusion: Studying Ontarian 2SLGBTQI+ parents' experiences childrearing in a post-legal parity framework. Precarious Inclusion used interviews and digital storytelling to investigate Ontario 2SLGBTQI+ parents' current experiences of inclusion and exclusion when navigating institutional and social interactions in everyday life in a po…
Observing Neurodiversity, Observing Methodology
Ethnographic researchers have long relied upon observation as a powerful means to learn about social relations. This paper discusses research observation that was conducted as a part of an institutional ethnography (IE) investigating how people use the language and ideas of neurodiversity across different settings. While our research protocol initially called for ethnographic observation to take place at in-person events in Southern Ontario, our …
“The refusal to fit into boxes”
What do people with Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) think about neurodiversity? How does it affect what they do? While a burgeoning body of scholarship has examined the concept of neurodiversity, this work has often restricted its focus to autism, or addressed more general ideas about neurodivergence. Little existing research explores what neurodiversity means to people with ADHD. This paper presents a subset of findings from a mu…
Teaching Resistance
Unyielding
LGBTQ+ Parents' Care and Work Arrangements During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Existing research on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on parents' care and work responsibilities has largely ignored the experiences of LGBTQ+ parents. Most gender divisions of labor studies have actively excluded LGBTQ+ parents and/or failed to ask about parents' sexuality. This mixed-methods study used a combination of an online survey (n = 4683, 350 identifying as non-heterosexual) and virtual interviews (9 interviews with 14 parents) in co…
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