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Seeking Justice and Belonging: The Complexity of Identity

From: Discrimination Stories

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This chapter examines the dysfunctionality of traditional legal categories of anti-discrimination law and how these categories engage with identity. Intersectionality and identity performance are discussed in the context of discrimination.

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Colleen Sheppard

Colleen Sheppard is a professor at the Faculty of Law, McGill University, a member of the McGill Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism, and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Her teaching and research focus on equality rights, systemic discrimination, and Canadian constitutional law. She has published widely on these issues both nationally and internationally.