Em Dobson has a BA in English Literature & Creative Writing and Philosophy from the University of Windsor. They are currently researching the philosophy of disability and are completing their thesis on Life-Value Ethics and its implications for disability theory and the disability political movement. Recently, Em has presented their paper on disability and the epistemology of ignorance entitled "Missing the Mark: Exploring the Forgetting of Disability in Media" at the 2018 FEMMSS 2018 (Feminist Epistemologies, Methodologies, Metaphysics and Science Studies) conference.