Education
Ph.D., University of Toronto Social Work, Collaborative degree in Women Gender Studies
M.S.W., University of Toronto - Social Work
B.A., Harvard University History Science
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Courses Taught at RenisonÌý
SOCWK 301RÌýUnderstanding Diversity in Canada
³§°¿°ä°Â°Ìý321¸éÌýSocial Work with Families
SDS 310R Disability and Society
SDS 410R Queer and Trans Studies (previously SDS 450R)
SWREN 424RÌýSocial Work and Organizations
SWK 605R Knowledge Mobilization & Evidence Based PracticeÌý
Research and teaching interests
2SLGBTQ communities and sexuality studies; Disability studies; Parenting and families; Critical social work practice; Feminist research methods; History and philosophy of healthcare and social services; Critical autism and neurodiversity studies.
See more (including current projects)Ìýat this website.
Publications
Selected journal articles
livingstone, b.,ÌýGibson, M. F., Douglas, P., Leo, S., and Gruson-Wood, J. (Forthcoming). Weighing in: academic writers on neurodiversity.ÌýInternational Journal of Disability and Social Justice.
Williams, C. W.,ÌýGibson, M. F., Mooney, E. S., Forbes, J. R., Curling, D., green, d. c., Ross, L. (Forthcoming). A structural analysis of gender-based violence against sexual minority women and trans people.ÌýAffilia: Feminist Inquiry in Social Work.
Gruson-Wood, J., Reid, K., Rice, C., Haines, J., Chapman, G.,ÌýGibson, M.Ìý(2022). The game of queer family life: exploring 2SLGBTQI+ parents’ experiences of cisheteronormativity, racism, and colonialism through digital storytelling in Ontario, Canada.ÌýThe Journal of Homosexuality. DOI: 10.1080/00918369.2022.2132581
Shields, R., Easton, S., Gruson-Wood, J.,ÌýGibson, M. F., Douglas, P., and Rice, C. (2022). Storytelling methods on the move.ÌýInternational Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, Special issue on Critical Autism Studies: Methodological Incursions, Eds. R. Roscigno & A. Broderick. DOI: 10.1080/09518398.2022.2061625.
Gibson, M. F.Ìý(2021).ÌýThe helpful brain? Translations of neuroscience into social work.ÌýTheÌýBritish Journal of Social Work, 51(7), pp. 2665-2679.ÌýÌý
Douglas, P, Rice, C., Runswick-Cole, K., Easton, A.,ÌýGibson, M. F., Gruson-Wood, J., Klar, E., & Shields, R. (2019). Re-storying autism: a body becoming disability studies in education approach.ÌýInternational Journal of Inclusive Education.ÌýDOI:10.1080/13603116.2018.1563835
Gibson, M. F.Ìý& Douglas, P. (2018). Disturbing behaviors: Ole Ivar Lovaas and the queer history of autism science.ÌýCatalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience, 4(2), 1-28. http://www.catalystjournal.org. https://doi.org/10.28968/cftt.v4i2.29579
Ross, L. E.,ÌýGibson, M. F., Steele, L., Williams, C. W., & Daley, A. (2018). In spite of the system: a mixed methods analysis of the mental health service experiences of LGBTQ people living in poverty in Ontario, Canada.ÌýPLOSÌýONEÌý13(8): DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0201437
Gibson, M. F.Ìý(2018). Predator, pet lesbian, or just the nanny? LGBTQ parents of children with disabilities describe categorization.ÌýJournal of Homosexuality, 65(7): 860-883.ÌýDOI: 10.1080/00918369.2017.1364565.
Gibson, M. F.Ìý(2018). Subtle neglect and yuckiness: queerness, disability, and contagion in mothers’ narratives.ÌýFeminist Formations, 30(1): 117-140. DOI: 10.1353/ff.2018.0006. Special issue on Queer/Crip Contagions, Eds. K. Fritsch & A. McGuire.
Gibson, M. F. (2018). ‘Parent advocacy’ as an ideological code: LGBTQ parents engage with disability services.ÌýJournal of Progressive Human Services, 30(1), 46-68.ÌýDOI:10.1080/10428232.2018.1543996.
Williams, C. W., Curling, D., Steele, L. S.,ÌýGibson, M. F., Daley, A., green, d. c., Ross, L. E. (2017). Depression and discrimination in the lives of women, transgender and gender liminal people in Ontario, Canada.ÌýHealth & Social Care in the Community, 25(3), 1139-1150. DOI: 10.1111/hsc.12414.
Gibson, M. F.Ìý(2016). ‘This is real now because it’s a piece of paper’: texts, disability, and LGBTQ parents.ÌýDisability & Society, 31(5): 641-658. DOI 10.1080/09687599.2016.1197822.
Steele, L.S., Daley, A.,ÌýCurling, D.,ÌýGibson, M., green, d., Williams, C., & Ross, L.E.Ìý(2016). LGBT Identity, untreated depression and unmet need for mental health services by sexual minority women and trans-identified people in Ontario.ÌýJournal of Women’s Health, 26(2), 116-127. DOI 10.1089/jwh.2015.5677.
Flanders, C. E.,ÌýGibson, M.F., Goldberg, A. E., & Ross, L. E. (2016). Postpartum depression among visible and invisible sexual minority women: a pilot study.ÌýArchives of Women’s Mental Health, 19(2), 299-305. DOI 10.1007/s00737-015-0566-4.
Gibson, M. F.Ìý(2015). Intersecting deviance: social work, difference, and the legacy of eugenics.ÌýBritish Journal of Social Work, 45, 313-330.ÌýDOI 10.1093/bjsw/bct131.
Selected books and chapters
Gibson, M. F.Ìý& Gruson-Wood, J. (2022). 2SLGBTIQ+ families in Canada. In Albanese, P. (Ed.),ÌýCanadian Families Today, 5thÌýEdition, pp. 46-69. Don Mills, Canada: Oxford University Press.ÌýÌý
Gibson, M. F.Ìý(2021). Forming the chart: texts, actions, and differences. In Daley, A. & Pilling, M., eds.ÌýInterrogating psychiatric narratives of madness: documented lives,Ìýpp. 165-172.ÌýPalgrave Macmillan.ÌýÌýÌý
Gibson, M. F., Daley, A., & Pilling, M. (2021). Concluding thoughts. In Daley, A. and Pilling, M. (Eds.), Interrogating Psychiatric Narratives of Distress: Documented Lives, pp. 165-172. Palgrave MacMillan.
Pilling, M., Daley, A.,ÌýGibson, M. F., Ross, L. E., & Zaheer, J. (2018). Assessing insight: determining agency and autonomy. In Kiltay, J.M. & Dej, E. (Eds.), Containing madness: gender and ‘psy’ in institutional contexts, 191-214. Palgrave Macmillan.
Gibson,ÌýM. F.Ìý(Ed.). (2014).ÌýQueering motherhood: narrative and theoretical perspectives. Toronto: Demeter Press.