Author: Sheryl Reimer-Kirkham

In the past months, Mothering & Albinism team members have presented our work at two international conferences. African Studies Association, Chicago, IL, December 2024 Our team took advantage of the opportunity to present the work of our Mothering and Albinism Network at the African Studies Association Annual Meeting in Chicago in December 2024. This venue… Continue reading International Presentations by Mothering & Albinism Team in Chicago USA and Lancaster UK

As a network of scholars and advocates from multiple disciplinary fields and various sectors, we are bringing our knowledges and skills together to address a complex problematic, that of protecting and promoting the human rights of mothers impacted by albinism. This challenge cannot be solved by any one disciplinary stance, methodological approach or practical skillset.… Continue reading The strength of our research-advocacy-policy network in action: Reflections on our Engagement Workshop in Pretoria, October 2-4, 2023

The International Council of Nurses (ICN, n.d.), a federation of more than 130 national nurses associations, hosted this year’s Congress in Montreal, Canada with an attendance of about 6,000 nurses from all over the world (ICN, 2023). Our Mothering and Albinism team presented our important research work on albinism and human rights through a presentation… Continue reading Presenting on Albinism at the International Council of Nurses 2023

In many parts of the world, mothers affected by albinism—whether as mothers of children with albinism or themselves with albinism—are disproportionately impacted by a constellation of health-related stigma, associated worldviews and human rights violations.  Read our Open Access paper (available at link below) about our critical ethnographic study in Tanzania, where we engaged with the… Continue reading Mothering, Albinism and Human Rights: The Disproportionate Impact of Health-Related Stigma in Tanzania

Perpetua Senkoro, Advocate and Human Rights Officer with Under the Same Sun in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Site Collaborator on our research project, is studying at McGill University. She writes: Montreal has so far been quite pleasant. Considering I come from Dar-es-salaam, a coastal city in Tanzania, where it’s pretty much summer all year… Continue reading Reflections on being a law student in Montreal as a woman with albinism from Dar es Salaam

On February 11, 2020, Ikponwosa Ero, United Nations Expert on the Enjoyment of Human Rights by Persons with Albinism is the featured Guest Speaker, alongside a panel of researchers in albinism and gender studies, at the Gender, Albinism & Human Rights Café hosted by Trinity Western University, School of Nursing, Gender Studies Institute, Centre for… Continue reading Gender, Albinism & Human Rights

Vancouver. Calgary. Amsterdam. Kilimanjaro. Dar es Salaam. Stiff after 23 hours of travel time, I arrived to warm welcomes “Karibu Sana Tanzania” (Swahili for “You are very welcome to Tanzania”) and tropical heat. Following several months of working through research clearance in country as well as in Canada, obtaining the correct travel visa, and coordinating… Continue reading Karibu Tanzania!

The theme for Albinism Awareness Day 2019 was “Still Standing Strong”.  This theme is a call to recognize, celebrate and stand in solidarity with persons with albinism around the world, and to support their cause, from their accomplishments and positive practices to the promotion and protection of their human rights. At the United Nations Headquarters… Continue reading “Still Standing Strong”. International Albinism Awareness Day, June 13, 2019, New York

Ikponwosa Ero, United Nations Independent Expert on the Enjoyment of Human Rights by Persons with Albinism, approached us (Dr. Barb Astle and myself, Dr. Sheryl Reimer-Kirkham) a few years ago about supporting her mandate as researchers.  Her invitation was compelling.  Though neither of us had conducted research on albinism, we draw on our respective areas… Continue reading Our entry point