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Elizabeth Straus

PhD, RN | PhD, MN, BScN, BSc

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Academic information

  • Departments: Re•Vision: The Centre for Art and Social Justice
  • Affiliations: University of Guelph

Experience in LGBT2SQ research

Dr. Elizabeth Straus (they/she) is a queer, autistic, and disabled nurse scholar. Their research aims to co-produce critical intersectional knowledge and creative outputs with disabled, autistic, and 2SLGBTQIA+ communities to inform and transform narratives of disability, autism, and gender/sexuality, and related structures and practices, in health care and education. They are the Principal Investigator of “Beyond the Normative Knot: Life and Praxis at the Gender-Sexuality-Autism Nexus”, a participatory multimedia storytelling and interview study that aims to challenge stereotypes about gender, sexuality, and autism in mental health care, education, and in the community and expand possibilities for living and thriving across diverse embodiments of gender, sexualities, and autistic (or related) ways of being. I also currently serve as the Communications Officer on the executive of the Rainbow Nursing Interest Group of the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario.

Interest in LGBT2SQ research

Dr. Elizabeth Straus (they/she) is a queer, autistic, and disabled nurse scholar. Their research aims to co-produce critical and intersectional knowledge and creative outputs with disabled, autistic, and 2SLGBTQIA+ communities to inform and transform narratives of disability, autism, and gender/sexuality, and related structures and practices, in health care and education. They are the Principal Investigator of “Beyond the Normative Knot: Life and Praxis at the Gender-Sexuality-Autism Nexus”, a multimedia storytelling and interview study that aims to challenge stereotypes about gender, sexuality, and autism in mental health care, education, and in the community and expand possibilities for living and thriving across diverse embodiments of gender, sexualities, and autistic (or related) ways of being. I am also interested in exploring intersectional research with 2SLGBTQIA+ communities, including autistic 2SLGBTQIA+ BIPOC experiences, structural barriers experienced by queer and trans* autistic folks who experience chronic pain and/or ME/CFS, and zine-making workshops to develop resources by/for autistic youth who are exploring their gender identities, sexualities, and autistic selves.