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Dr. Frances J. Latchford is Associate Professor and Chair of the School of Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies at York University's Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies. With a PhD in Philosophy from York University, her research specializes in feminist social and political philosophy informed by continental, psychoanalytic, poststructural, (post)colonial, queer and transgender theories.
Latchford's scholarship examines queer and transgender subjectivities, sexuality, gender, drag performance, and adoption discourse. She authored Steeped in Blood: Adoption, Identity, and the Meaning of Family (2019), which analyzes how family experiences are socially produced and differentiated in Western contexts. Her work critically examines the devaluation of adoptee experiences through intersecting discourses of family, sexuality, and incest.
As former YUFA Equity Officer and current department chair, Latchford maintains research interests in critical ontologies/epistemologies, knowledge production, and identity formation. She edited Adoption and Mothering (Demeter Press, 2012) and contributes to interdisciplinary scholarship on gender, sexuality, and family structures.
