Idil Abdillahi is an Assistant Professor at the School of Disability Studies, cross-appointed to the School of Social Work at Ryerson University. She is an internationally recognized scholar, researcher and practitioner across the social sciences. She is the author of Black Women Under State: Surveillance, Poverty, & the Violence of Social Assistance (2022), co-author of BlackLife: Post-BLM and The Struggle For Freedom (2019), author of Blackened Madness: Medicalization, and Black Everyday Life in Canada (forthcoming), and a co-editor of the forthcoming edition of Mad Matters: A Critical Reader in Canadian Mad Studies.