Patty Douglas is the Inaugural Research Chair in Student Success and Wellness, Associate Professor of Disability Studies, and Co-Director of the Centre for Community Engagement and Social Change in the Faculty of Education at Queen’s University. She is also a former special education teacher in Ontario and British Columbia. Patty’s research focuses on reimagining deficit approaches to disability in education through critical approaches such as disability studies, mad (m)othering, decolonial studies and arts-based methodologies. Patty founded and is the director of Re•Storying Autism in Education (www.restoryingautism.com), a multimedia storytelling project in Canada, the UK and Aotearoa (New Zealand) that brings together autistic and non-autistic students, artists, family, kin and educators to reimagine autism and practice in neuro-affirming ways. Patty is a white settler academic ally and identifies as neurodivergent and invisibly disabled. She is also the mother of two neurodivergent sons, one of whom attracted the label of autism. Patty’s book, Unmothering autism: Ethical disruptions and care pedagogies is forthcoming with UBC Press.