Margaret Robinson (activist and scholar)
Margaret Robinson is a Canadian Mi’kmaq feminist scholar and activist noted for her research on sexuality, specifically bisexuality, sexual and gender minority people's experiences of mental health and Indigenous health. She is currently an assistant professor at Dalhousie University. Biography Robinson received a M.A. in Theology in 2001 and a Ph.D in Theology in 2009, both from the University of Toronto. She was a past co-chair of the Dyke March, project coordinator of the Risk & Resilience project, and project lead for the Bisexuality Disclosure Kit. She is a vegan and presents at conferences and community events on Indigenous veganism. Career Recent publications on bisexuality and mental health include bisexual women's use of cannabis, the experiences of bisexual people in seeking mental health supports, and bisexuality, poverty and mental health. From 2014 to 2016 Robinson was the Researcher in Residence in Indigenous Health at the Ontario HIV Treatment Network in Toronto. Robinson has received numerous fellowships and major grants, including a 2015 Canada Council for the Arts grant for Aboriginal Writing used towards a residency at the Banff Centre. In 2017, Robinson was appointed vice-chair of the Canadian Institute of Health Research's Indigenous Health Advisory Board. Activism In 2011, Robinson was the Project Coordinator of the "This is Our Community" poster and postcard campaign, developed with Rainbow Health Ontario in order to challenge biphobia. The project, which consisted of 4 posters featuring identities "erased" via biphobia (such as bisexual and femme, bisexual and Black, bisexual and trans) received international attention, including coverage in The Advocate. She is a former facilitator with both the Toronto Bisexual Network and Bisexual Women of Toronto groups, as well as director of the Toronto Bisexuality Education Project. References External links Dalhousie University: Margaret Robinson, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology Living people Writers from Nova Scotia Canadian LGBT rights activists Canadian activists Bisexual rights activists Bisexual women writers Mi'kmaq people First Nations women writers First Nations activists LGBT First Nations people First Nations feminists 21st-century Canadian women writers Canadian women activists 21st-century First Nations writers 21st-century Canadian non-fiction writers Canadian women non-fiction writers Year of birth missing (living people) Bisexual academics First Nations academics Women civil rights activists Canadian bisexual writers 21st-century Canadian LGBT people Canadian LGBT academics Lennox Island First Nation