Nerida is a PhD candidate in the Department of Gender, Sexuality and Women鈥檚 Studies with a BA and MA in Sociology from the University of Waterloo. Her doctoral research is a queer exploration of marriage though the lens of the BC Supreme Court Charter Reference on Polygamy that was conducted in 2011 to determine whether the criminalization of polygamy was consistent with the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Her research situates the Charter Reference within an ongoing history of marriage, moral crusades and moral panics in Canada with an emphasis on disentangling the compulsory nature of the romantic dyad at the intersection of law, gender, sexuality and race.