Everybody Hates Me: Let's Talk About Stigma

Dr. Alexander McClelland is a sociolegal researcher and Banting Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Ottawa in the Department of Criminology. He is currently examining issues of confidentiality for research with criminalized people. His work focuses on the intersections of life, law and disease, where he has developed a range of collaborative and interdisciplinary writing, academic, activist, and artistic projects to address issues of criminalization, sexual autonomy, surveillance, drug liberation, and the construction of knowledge on HIV.

On this episode Alex discusses the harms and injustice of criminalizing people living with HIV, stigma as everyday violence, and the need for expanding our imagination for responding to complex social problems working with communities.

Learn more about Dr. McClelland's work here.

Also find out more about Dr. McClelland's work on Policing the Pandemic.

Episode hosted by Dr. Carmen Logie. Original music and podcast produced by Cozmic Cat. Supported by funding from the Canada Foundation for Innovationand Canada Research Chairs program.

Dr. Charmaine Williams is a Professor at the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto. She is also Vice-Dean, Students, School of Graduate Studies. Her research bridges practice and access and equity issues that affect various populations including racial minority women, LGBTQ individuals in local and international contexts, and individuals and families affected by serious and persistent mental illnesses. The majority of her practice experience has been in the mental health care system where she worked in inpatient and outpatient services and professional development and training.

On this episode we talk about how stigma works to remove hope and possibility from people living with a mental health diagnosis, the importance of looking at how stigma is embedded in structures, and the role of social workers in challenging stigma.

Learn more about Dr. Williams' work here and find her on twitter.

Episode hosted by Dr. Carmen Logie. Original music and podcast produced by Cozmic Cat. Supported by funding from the Canada Foundation for Innovationand Canada Research Chairs program.

The inaugural episode involves an interview with Dr. Valerie Earnshaw, Assistant Professor at Delaware University's College of Education and Human Development. She is world renowned stigma researcher focused on understanding and addressing associations between stigma and health inequities across the lifespan. Dr. Earnshaw's work has looked at many kinds of stigma--from HIV, to Ebola, to H1N1, substance use, among others.

In this episode Dr. Earnshaw talks about how she became interested in stigma, experiences of substance use stigma in her research, and art as a potential solution for stigma. You will also learn about her favourite nextflix show and most commonly used emoji...

Find more about Dr. Earnshaw's work here. You can also learn more about the Earnshaw Lab on Stigma and Health Inequities.

Episode hosted by Dr. Carmen Logie. Original music and podcast produced by Cozmic Cat. Supported by funding from the Canada Foundation for Innovation and Canada Research Chairs program.