Feminist Lunch Series - Noise Silence Exploring Abortion Misinformation in NB - FR

Event date(s): February 07, 2025
Time(s): 12:30 PM - 01:30 PM
Category: Both Campuses Fredericton Saint John
Location: Fredericton

Event Details:

Please mark your calendars for the second talk of our Winter 2025 Feminist Lunch Series to be given on Friday, Feb. 7 at 12:30 p.m. in the Harriet Irving Library's Innovation Hub, Room 316, on UNB Campus in Fredericton by Dr. Tobin LeBlanc-Haley.

The talk is titled: "Noise and Silence: Exploring Abortion Misinformation in New Brunswick”.  

In this presentation Dr. Haley will present a paper co-written with Christine Hughes on the misinformation circulating about abortion care in New Brunswick amidst a period of policy change, public debate, and, until recently, anti-choice political leadership .  Drawing on feminist scholarship that critically engages with the gendered operation of noise, voice and/or silence, this presentation will focus on original, primary data from 12 interviews and 3 focus groups, contextualizing the misinformation circulating in the province against the longstanding struggle for comprehensive abortion access in NB.  It ends with considerations for the future, now that Regulation 84.20 has been changed to allow for procedural abortion care in freestanding clinics.

Dr. Tobin LeBlanc-Haley is an Assistant Professor of Sociology in the Department of Social Science in the Faculty of Arts at UNBSJ. She obtained her PhD from York University. Her research is community-engaged, blending critical policy ethnography, archival research, and arts-informed approaches to make visible the impacts of Canadian social policy for people living at the intersection of disability, socio-economic poverty, and housing precarity, and to chart new opportunities for positive change. Dr. Haley is committed to student-centered, accessible, and anti-racist/anti-oppressive pedagogy, and encourages students to bring their own experiences into the classroom.

All are welcome! Light refreshments served.

The Feminist Lunch Series is organized by the UNB Gender & Women’s Studies Program, the UNB/STU University Women’s Centre, UNB Libraries and UNB Alumnae association. For more information on the series, contact Sophie Lavoie (lavoie@unb.ca).

 

Building: Harriet Irving Library Innovation Hub

Room Number: Rm. 316

Contact: Angela Peters
1 506 453 4762
Angela.Peters@unb.ca