IDIL AbdillahiIdil Abdillahi is Assistant professor from the School of Disability Studies at Ryerson University. A critical interdisciplinary scholar, she has published on a wide array of topics, such as mental health, poverty, HiV/AIDS, organizational development and several other key policy areas at the intersection of BlackLife and state interruption.Most notably, Abdillah's cutting-edge research and scholarship on anti-Black Sanism has informed the current debates on fatal police shootings of Black mad-identified peoples. With Rinaldo Walcott she co-authored BlackLife: Post-BLM and the Struggle for Freedom (ARP Books, 2019)and she is currently working on her next book, Blackened Madness: Medicalization, and Black Everyday Life in Canada (ARP Books). Abdillahi is currently the newest addition to the editorial team of Mad Matters: A Critical Reader In Canadian Mad Studies, where she will be co-editing the latest edition of the text alongside Brenda LeFrancois, Robert Menzies and Geoffrey Reaume. She was named one of Toronto's 12 Most Inspiring Women of 2020 by Post City Magazines. Read More Read Less