Bailey Bird (they/them)

MA Student

Email: bailey.bird@mail.utoronto.ca

Social Media:

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Areas of Interest

• Disability Studies
• Erotics and Pleasure
• Film Studies
• Horror
• Indigenous Studies
• Queer and Trans Studies
• Sexuality

Biography

Bailey Bird is queer and non-binary scholar, activist, and artist. In November 2023, they graduated from their Bachelor of Arts at McGill University where they studied Honours Psychology and completed Minors in Philosophy and Gender, Sexuality, Feminist, and Social Justice (GSFS) Studies. In their freetime, Bailey enjoys watching horror movies, acting, making jewelry, and hanging out with their cats.

Program: MA 2024

Education

B. A. (Honours), McGill University

Master’s Research Paper

Supervisor: S. Trimble

Bailey’s MRP will explore what scholar, Jessica L. Williams, called “The New American Freak Show”. They will critically analyze the New American Freak Show through the depictions and representations of disabled people in horror movies and investigate the societal impacts of such portrayals.

Presentations

Let's Talk About Sex Baby: Exploring the Trans*Feminist Nature of jaye simpson's Poetry, Intersections Journal Launch Event, Montreal, Quebec, March 2023

Gender Differences in Empathic Accuracy During Supportive and Non-Supportive Tasks, Centre for Research in Human Development (CRDH) Annual Conference, Montreal, Quebec, March 2023

Gender Differences in Empathic Accuracy During Supportive and Non-Supportive Tasks, McGill University Psychology Department Poster Presentation Ceremony, Montreal, Quebec, April 2022

Selected Works

Bailey, Bird.“Exposing the Real Monster Behind Freak Shows: Ableism” Behind the Roddick Gates, The Redpath Museum Student Research Journal, edited by Annabelle Penney, March 2023

Bailey, Bird. “Let’s Talk About Sex Baby: Exploring the Trans*Feminist Nature of jaye simpson’s Poetry” Intersections, McGill’s Undergraduate Journal of Feminist Studies, edited by Rachel Jaworski, Taneeshaa Pradhan, and Millie Murray, March 2023

Honours and Awards