Needs, Access, and Obstacles: Mental Health Care for 2SLGBTQIA+ people during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Join of us for the third presentation on findings from the Queer COVID-TO project.
As part of the COVID-TO project, researchers interviewed people from queer 2SLGBTQIA+ communities across the Greater Toronto Area. While existing mental health challenges got worse and new mental health challenges emerged for many participants, accessible mental health supports and resources decreased or became unavailable.
This presentation highlights the need to establish more mental health services that are particularly focused on the needs of queer service-users. The researchers are also advocates for more equitable labour practices within mental health care for practitioners specializing in queer-focused care.
Our Presenters:
Sarah A. Williams, PhD, (she/her) is an applied medical anthropologist, birthworker, and scholar of global maternal health. Her scholarship is primarily focused on the relationship between racialization, medical racism, and reproductive health in Mexico and Canada. She is currently the Louise Lamphere Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Gender Studies at Brown University.
Jessica Fields (she/her) is Vice-Dean Faculty Affairs, Equity & Success in the Office of the Vice-Principal Academic & Dean and Professor of Health Studies at University of Toronto Scarborough. Fields’ research focus on racialized and gendered discourses of vulnerability and risk. Fields is currently completing her second book, Problems We Pose: Feeling Differently about Qualitative Research (University of Minnesota Press), in which she welcomes emotion and feeling as a source of insight—not an obstacle to understanding—into the racialized, gendered, and sexual inequities that compromise health and well-being.
Laura Beach (they/them) is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto and a Course Instructor at U of T and Mount Saint Vincent University. They are a broadly trained scholar with expertise in the areas of criminalization, incarceration, settler-colonialism, and Indigenous healing traditions, and they are an integral member of the Queer-COVID research team.
You can learn more about the Queer COVID-TO project on their website: Queer and Covid Toronto (utoronto.ca)
Register for this event here: Needs, Access, & Obstacles: Mental Health Care for 2SLGBTQIA+ during COVID Tickets, Thu, 20 Apr 2023 at 12:00 PM | Eventbrite
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