Marie-Christine Williams-Plouffe

Coordinator of the Canada Research Chair in Third-Party Reproduction and Family Ties
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Marie-Christine Williams-Plouffe (elle/she/her) is the coordinator of the Canada Research Chair in Third-Party Reproduction and Family Ties and candidate for the master’s degree in social work at the Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO) under the supervision of Isabel Côté and Kévin Lavoie. She also holds a Bachelor of Social Work degree from the same university. Her research interests focus on family diversity and the realities of LGBTQIA2S+ communities. Her master’s dissertation focuses on how children of gay fathers, born through surrogacy, tell and represent their families. She works and has collaborated on the following projects; STORIES project : Self, Transmission, Origins, Representations, and Identity among Donor-Conceived Teenagers and their Families, the DRIFTS project, My Mother’s Surrogacy project, Adoption Project and also working on a podcast that are part of the Research Chair’s programming.

Publications

  • Parents’ and Offspring’s Experience of Insemination Fraud: A Qualitative Study

    Donor-Linked Families in the Digital Age: Relatedness and Regulation, pp. 85-102, Cambridge University Press (2023)

Related contents

  • OK – Episode 3 – Être parent

    Lutter, bâtir, exister : récits LGBTQ+ (2025)
  • OK – Episode 2 – Fonder une famille

    Lutter, bâtir, exister : récits LGBTQ+ (2025)
  • REV – The STORIES Project in Comics

    STORIES Research Team (2022)