Brittany PennerBRITTANY PENNER is an author, practicing family physician and a lecturer with the University of Manitoba Max Rady College of Medicine, and has been a keynote speaker at the University of Manitoba. She is currently completing a Master of Liberal Arts egree at Harvard University. Her personal essays have appeared in Salon, The Globe and Mail, Maclean's, Huffington Post Canada, This Magazine and Canadian Family Physician, and typically revolve around the complex nature of identity and family dynamics. She lives in Manitoba. Read More Read Less