Tanis Doe

Tanis Doe (June 20, 1966{{snd}}August 2004) was a Métis (Ojibway/French Canadian) academic, and activist. She worked as a professor at several institutions across the United States and Canada.{{Cite journal |last=Doe |first=Tanis |date=2004 |title=The Difficulty with Deafness Discourse and Disability Culture |url=https://rdsjournal.org/ |journal=Review of Disability Studies|language=en |volume=1 |issue=1 |issn=1552-9215}} She was known for her research on participatory action, and worked covering topics in the categories of disability, abuse, genders, sexualities, employment, assistive technology, and advocacy.{{Cite web |title=Tanis Doe Post-Doctoral Fellow in Gender, Disability and Social Justice |url=https://www.torontomu.ca/disability-studies/people/gender-disability-social-justice-fellowship/ |access-date=2024-03-21 |website=Toronto Metropolitan University |language=en}}

Early life and education

As a teenager, Doe worked for two summers at the Jack Purcell Community Centre summer camp for disabled children in Ottawa.{{Cite news |date=1981-09-02 |title=Communication problems focus of special camp |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mK4yAAAAIBAJ&dq=%22tanis+doe%22&pg=PA7&article_id=1604,459804 |access-date=2024-03-26 |work=Ottawa Citizen |pages=4}}

In 1984, while studying political science at Carleton University, Doe was named Ottawa Youth of the Year. At the time, she volunteered with the Canadian Hearing Society, the Canadian National Institute for the Blind, and Run For Light, a marathon for blind runners.{{Cite news |date=1984-06-08 |title=Ottawa names youth of year |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aKQyAAAAIBAJ&dq=%22tanis+doe%22&pg=PA38&article_id=1393,3892450 |access-date=2024-03-26 |work=Ottawa Citizen |pages=36}} She went on to earn a Bachelor of Arts Degree (B.A.) in political science and a Master's Degree in Social Work (M.S.W) from Carleton University, and a PhD in Sociology and Education from the University of Alberta.

Career

After graduating from Carleton University, Doe worked for the Canadian federal Secretary of State department.{{Cite news |date=1985-08-14 |title=Deaf meet roadblocks at university |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7X5WAAAAIBAJ&dq=%22tanis+doe%22&pg=PA15&article_id=1141,2712091 |access-date=2024-03-26 |work=The Leader-Post |pages=B3}}

Doe worked in the department of Social Work and Disability Studies at The University of Victoria. Doe also worked for Royal Roads University, Ryerson University, now TMU, and University of Washington. Doe's work at Washington was in the area of bioethics in which she also was a Washington Fulbright Scholar. In 2003, Doe directed research for organizations across the United States and Canada. She also worked as a consultant for organizations world-wide.{{Cite web |title=Tanis Doe Award |url=https://cdsa-aceh.ca/awards/tanis-doe-award/ |access-date=2024-03-26 |website=Canadian Disability Studies Association |language=en-CA}} Doe sometimes wrote under the pen name Vicky D'Aoust.{{Cite book |last=D'Aoust |first=Vicky |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BdzhDwAAQBAJ&dq=%22tanis+doe%22&pg=PT371 |title=Disabled Mothers: Stories and Scholarship By and About Mother with Disabilities |date=2014-03-01 |publisher=Demeter Press |isbn=978-1-927335-79-6 |editor-last=Filax |editor-first=Gloria |language=en |chapter=Non-existent and Struggling for Identity}}

In 1998, Doe co-founded the first Changing Borders conference, which was aimed towards disabled women.{{Cite book |last1=Weiss |first1=Penny A. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sUJKDwAAQBAJ&dq=%22tanis+doe%22&pg=PA374 |title=Feminist Manifestos: A Global Documentary Reader |last2=Brueske |first2=Megan |date=2018-04-03 |publisher=NYU Press |isbn=978-1-4798-7180-3 |pages=374 |language=en}}

Her namesake awards include The Tanis Doe Postdoctoral Fellowship in Gender, Disability, and Social Justice, and the Tanis Doe Award, first awarded in 2009.

Personal life

Tanis Doe was married to Corbett O'Toole and identified as queer. She had two children: her daughter Ann Marie, and step-daughter Meecha. Doe lived in Victoria, British Columbia.{{Citation needed|date=March 2024}}

Doe was a wheelchair user and self-described "marginal member of the Deaf community", who could speak and was not born deaf, but also had a deaf child who was raised within Deaf schools and the Deaf community.{{Cite web |title=Tanis DOE Obituary (2004) - The Times Colonist |url=https://www.legacy.com/ca/obituaries/timescolonist/name/tanis-doe-obituary?id=44234224 |access-date=2024-03-21 |website=Legacy.com}}

She died in August 2004 of a pulmonary embolism.{{Citation needed|date=March 2024}}

Books and publications

{{Cite book |last=Doe |first=Tanis |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bqJxAcmA9yEC&dq=%22tanis+doe%22&pg=PA464 |title=The Deaf Way: Perspectives from the International Conference on Deaf Culture |date=1994 |publisher=Gallaudet University Press |isbn=978-1-56368-026-7 |editor-last=Erting |editor-first=Carol |pages=464–468 |language=en |chapter=Multiple Minorities: Communities Within the Deaf Community}}
{{Cite book |last=D'Aoust |first=Vicky|title=Lesbian Parenting: Living with Pride and Prejudice|date=1995 |publisher=Gynergy Press|editor-last=Arnup |editor-first=Katherine |language=en |chapter=Non-existent and Struggling for Identity}}
Studying Disability; Connecting People, Programs and Policies - Referenced and accredited across many disability studies programs
{{Cite journal |last=Doe |first=Tanis |date=2004 |title=The Difficulty with Deafness Discourse and Disability Culture |url=https://rdsjournal.org/ |journal=Review of Disability Studies|language=en |volume=1 |issue=1 |issn=1552-9215}}
Doe's explains how her self-identity as a Deaf woman, with other disabilities, and her experience raising her Deaf daughter, Ann Marie, informed much of her work
{{Cite book |last1=Doe |first1=Tanis |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1iJDh0ZGR1IC&dq=%22tanis+doe%22&pg=PA120 |title=Rethinking Normalcy: A Disability Studies Reader |last2=Ladouceur |first2=Barbara |date=2009 |publisher=Canadian Scholars' Press |isbn=978-1-55130-363-5 |editor-last=Michalko |editor-first=Rod |language=en |chapter=To Be or Not to Be? Whose Question Is It, Anyway? |editor-last2=Titchkosky |editor-first2=Tanya}}
[https://publications.gc.ca/site/eng/295680/publication.html Enabling Income: CPP Disability Benefits and Women with Disabilities] - Tanis Doe and Sally Kimpson shared on the government of Canada's publication website
[https://publications.gc.ca/site/archivee-archived.html?url=https://publications.gc.ca/Collection/SW21-102-2002E.pdf Re/Working Benefits: Continuation of Non-Cash Benefits Support for Single Mothers and Disabled Women] - Shared on the government of Canada's publication website written by Tanis Doe and Doris Rajan with Claire Abbott