Idil Abdillahi
Advisor to the Dean on Anti-Black Racism
Assistant Professor
Faculty of Community Services
School of Disability Studies
Toronto, Ontario
iabdilla@torontomu.ca
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(416) 979-5000 ext. 3588
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Dr. Idil Abdillahi has published widely on an array of topics, including mental health, poverty, HIV/AIDS, organizational development, and several other key policy areas at the intersection of BlackLife and state interruption. Most notably, Dr. Abdillahi's cutting-edge research and scholarship on...
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Bio/Research
Dr. Idil Abdillahi has published widely on an array of topics, including mental health, poverty, HIV/AIDS, organizational development, and several other key policy areas at the intersection of BlackLife and state interruption. Most notably, Dr. Abdillahi's cutting-edge research and scholarship on anti-Black Sanism has informed the current debates on fatal police shootings of Black mad-identified peoples. Dr. Abdillahi is attentive to the tensions between data, research, communities, institutions and monetization. Therefore, they work to challenge the ways that research data about communities experiencing structural oppression – particularly Black communities – are increasingly used to further the oppression of those communities. In effect, these data are used by capital-oriented institutions while simultaneously serving socio-political ‘care’ spaces that range from community-based health care to hospitals and prisons. Dr. Abdillahi’s work integrates an understanding of how these institutions and ‘care’ spaces continue to disproportionately negatively impact Black women/people, leading to their disenfranchisement from ‘public’ services and supports in Tkaronto and beyond.
Dr. Abdillahi is an Assistant Professor in the School of Disability Studies, cross-appointed to the School of Social Work, and the advisor to the dean on Anti-Black Racism at the Faculty of Community and Social Services (2020-2021). Dr. Abdillahi is a Critical Black Interdisciplinary scholar, researcher, policy analyst, grassroots organizer, and experienced practitioner across healthcare, institutional, policy, and social service settings. She is the author of Black Women Under State: Surveillance, Poverty & the Violence of Social Assistance (2022), author of Blackened Madness: Medicalization, and Black Everyday Life in Canada (forthcoming), co-author of BlackLife: Post-BLM and The Struggle For Freedom (2019), and a co-editor of the upcoming edition of Mad matters: A critical reader in Canadian mad studies.
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Dr. Abdillahi is an Assistant Professor in the School of Disability Studies, cross-appointed to the School of Social Work, and the advisor to the dean on Anti-Black Racism at the Faculty of Community and Social Services (2020-2021). Dr. Abdillahi is a Critical Black Interdisciplinary scholar, researcher, policy analyst, grassroots organizer, and experienced practitioner across healthcare, institutional, policy, and social service settings. She is the author of Black Women Under State: Surveillance, Poverty & the Violence of Social Assistance (2022), author of Blackened Madness: Medicalization, and Black Everyday Life in Canada (forthcoming), co-author of BlackLife: Post-BLM and The Struggle For Freedom (2019), and a co-editor of the upcoming edition of Mad matters: A critical reader in Canadian mad studies.
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