DR. BISHOP OWIS (they/them/theirs)

Dr. Bishop Owis is an interdisciplinary education scholar and Assistant Professor of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. They most recently held a position as a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of British Columbia in the Faculty of Education where they worked with SOGI UBC.

A graduate from the University of Toronto’s Institute for Studies in Education, Bishop’s research critically examines the intersections of disability, gender, sexuality, race, settler-colonialism and the ethics of care in education institutions using public and art-based pedagogies. Their work is informed by a sense of collective imagination by disabled, queer, trans, Black, Indigenous and/or People of Colour (QTBIPOC), one that strives for world-building, futurity and justice.

They are first-generation born and raised on the unceded territories of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples of Tkaranto (Toronto, ON) by immigrant parents with mixed ancestry from Guyana (Indo-Caribbean indentureship) and Egypt (West Asia & The Levant).

Bishop is a creative-writer, avid photographer, sometimes artist and musician and a lover of aesthetics. They have a Gemini Sun, Sagittarius Moon and Taurus Rising. They are a proud queer, genderqueer/trans, disabled (mad, neurodivergent & crip), racialized scholar.

Bishop’s first book, Towards a Queer and Trans Ethic of Care in Education: Beyond the Limitations of White, Cisheteropatriarchical, Colonial Care will be published with Routledge in April 2024.