Drawing examples from research as well as her own life, Dr. Margaret Robinson provides important context about Indigenous gender roles and Indigenous identities, explaining how data collected in surveys, including Canadian surveys, can lack nuance and utility by failing to reflect Indigenous interests or worldviews.

About your presenter: Margaret Robinson is a Mi’kmaw scholar and a member of Lennox Island First Nation.  She grew up in Sheet Harbour, in the Eskikewa’kik district of Mi’kma’ki. Margaret works as an Associate Professor at Dalhousie University in her traditional territory of Mi’kma’ki. She identifies as two-spirit, bisexual, and queer, conducts research with sexual and gender minority people, and holds the Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Reconciliation, Gender, and Identity.

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And don't miss RDM from all angles (https://dal.libcal.com/calendar/events/RDMangles), a presentation available exclusively to the Dalhousie community.

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