barbara findlay Q.C.
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Welcome to The Law Office of barbara findlay, Q.C.
You have come to the right place for advice and help creating your family through assisted human reproduction. I do fertility contracts: donor insemination agreements, surrogacy agreements, embryo donation agreements, egg donation agreements, and declarations of parentage.
I also do agreements for folks in poly relationships - agreements among folk about living together, and what happens if some or all of the relationships end, or agreements among three or more folk who want to raise a child together.
I have been a queer feminist lawyer, committed to making the law work for all of us, for more than four decades. For me, this has meant everything from cohabitation and separation agreements, to ground breaking equality rights cases, to same sex immigration, to wills and representation agreements. However I am now restricting my practice to family agreements.
Because knowledge is power, on this website you'll find news about legal developments affecting gay, lesbians, bisexual and transgender people and the Out/Law series of legal information pamphlets available for download.
I also do agreements for folks in poly relationships - agreements among folk about living together, and what happens if some or all of the relationships end, or agreements among three or more folk who want to raise a child together.
I have been a queer feminist lawyer, committed to making the law work for all of us, for more than four decades. For me, this has meant everything from cohabitation and separation agreements, to ground breaking equality rights cases, to same sex immigration, to wills and representation agreements. However I am now restricting my practice to family agreements.
Because knowledge is power, on this website you'll find news about legal developments affecting gay, lesbians, bisexual and transgender people and the Out/Law series of legal information pamphlets available for download.
Unlearning Racism June 12/2020 I am an old white cisgender queer lawyer with disabilities who was raised working class and christian on the prairies. In these transformative times, we white people are being called upon to do our own work to become better allies to Black, Indigenous and People of Colour (BIPOC). We have ALL been steeped in the institutional and cultural racism and colonialism of Canada. We were not born racist. We learned it. It is not our fault that we have absorbed that racism in every cell of our being, like breathing the air. But it is our urgent responsibility to work to unlearn that racism and to become allies to Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour (BIPOC). I made a post on Facebook recently asking if there were ten or so white people who would like to meet biweekly to work on our privilege and our allyship. Within hours the post had blown up; there are now more than 100 interested people. So I have developed a zoom workshop series on unlearning racism for white people, based on many years’ work doing unlearning racism IRL. This online workshop series is for white people who want to do some significant work to develop tools for the lifelong process of unlearning the racism our society has been built on, to learn how to move past our fears and become effective allies. The premise of the workshop is that unlearning racism happens both in the head, and in the heart. Participants will have opportunities throughout the workshop to work in dyads or small groups: it is not a talking heads experience. There will be about 8 sessions of 90 minutes, one every two weeks. We will call for folks to volunteer to facilitate small group workshops, and there will be a facilitators' support group in the weeks between the unlearning racism workshops. Shortly I will be sending a Survey Monkey to figure out the best time, and to invite volunteers to be facilitators. Meanwhile if you are interested, email me: [email protected] This format will enable the formation of 8 or 10 pods of white folk who can support each other ongoingly in support of BIPOC people in the fight against racism. |
barbara findlay is a member of Fertility Law B.C., a group of lawyers working on issues of assisted reproduction and the law. And In Particular - barbara findlay
Becca Plucer directed a great documentary which looks at the history of queer rights through the lens of my life.
It has been shown on OUT TV, at the Rio Theatre, and at festivals in Montreal, Nelson and Victoria, and most recently at the Queer Film Festival. The movie includes the ever-fabulous and courageous Vancouver activists whom I have had the honour to work with to move our rights forward: Barbara Bell, Sandy Leo Laframboise, Kimberly Nixon, Shantel Ivits, Craig Maynard, Theresa Tait-Day, Sadie Kuehn, Jeannette Piry, Joanne Arnott, Liz Whynot, and Sheila Gilhooly (my partner, also known as "Sheila the Great"). Many people have asked me how to access the movie. Click here for the Itunes link. |
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