Event Details
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Title:
Up For Discussion: Square Peg, Round Hole? (TOR)
Date:
March 11, 2010
Time:
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Description:
Up For Discussion: Queer Parenting Community Forums on Family Creation, Recognition, Conflict and Reconfiguration
In the LGBTQ Parenting Network (Sherbourne Health Centre), in collaboration with the Children’s Aid Society of Toronto (Domestic Violence Team), presents its second event in the Up For Discusion series, launched on February 11, 2010, focused on the issue of LGBTQ family recognition (in the legal, social, medical system). The LGBTQ Parenting Network recognizes that the issues affecting LGBTQ families are as complex and diverse as the make-up of our families. The goal of this discussion series is to provide a space for community members to engage with, explore and discuss some of the dilemmas affecting LGBTQ families at all stages of family life – family creation, recognition, conflict and reconfiguration. Part 2 of Up for Discussion explores the relationship between queer and trans families and the family law system. What are our legal rights and responsibilities in relation to birth registration, adoption, marriage, medical decisions, child support and the definition of “parent”? What are the implications of these rights and responsibilities for queer parents and families? The forum will feature legal, academic and community speakers and is a space for all to contribute to a discussion about how current legal definitions do or do not fit with the diversity of LGBTQ family structures. Guest speakers for Part 2 will be Brenda Cossman and Joanna Radbord (see their bios below). We want to hear your voice! Join the discussion. Pre-registration is required for childcare. Contact mtamaki@sherbourne.on.ca. Food and beverages will be provided. Speaker Bios: Brenda Cossman teaches courses on family law, gender and law, and law and film. She writes extensively in the area of law and sexuality and is actively involved in law reform, particularly in the area of same sex couples and definitions of family. Recently, she authored reports for the Law Commission of Canada and the Ontario Law Reform Commission on the legal regulation of adult relationships. Her most recent book, Sexual Citizens: The Legal and Cultural Regulation of Sex and Belonging, was published by Stanford University Press in 2007. Professor Cossman is also a frequent commentator in the media on issues relating to law and sexuality. Joanna Radbord is a family and equality rights lawyer with Martha McCarthy and Company in Toronto. She won the 2008 Canadian Bar Association SOGIC Hero Award for her work on cases changing the legal definitions of spouse, marriage and parent to include GLBT people.
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