Series: Indigenous Initiatives
Event Date & Time
Event Description
Making Space for LGBTQIA Students
As we strive to make our campuses more inclusive of students of all genders and sexual orientations, we have to take practical steps that safely invite LGBTQIA students into interactions with staff and faculty and into classroom activities with other students. In those interactions we must allow students to be who they are on the terms that they choose. This workshop will review the concepts of heteronormativity, cisnormativity, and erasure, and introduce key questions to consider in your interaction with LGBTQIA students. The workshop will include some practical strategies which aim to normalize gender and sexual diversity and which can be applied to course and lesson planning as well as other interactions with students.
Note: This is a “brown bag” workshop. There will be light refreshments and you are welcome to bring your own lunch.
Facilitators:
Dr. Katja Thieme
Katja Thieme works across 3 units at UBC Vancouver: Arts Studies in Research and Writing, Vantage College, and the Department of English Language and Literatures. She teaches courses on language and discourse analysis as well as on research writing across fields in the humanities and social sciences. She is a specialist in writing studies with published and forthcoming work on the written genres of Canadian political movements, the role of research methods in Indigenization of writing studies, the nature of method descriptions in literary studies research, and citation in trans studies scholarship.
Dr. Mary Ann S. Saunders
Mary Ann S. Saunders’ current teaching and research interests focus on trans pedagogies in the writing classroom, citation in trans studies scholarship, marginalized childhoods in children’s fiction, and transgender cultural production. She has an article forthcoming on citation in trans studies, and upcoming conference presentations on the social justice work of trans-informed pedagogies, and trans representation in middle-school fiction. Dr. Saunders works across three units at UBC Vancouver: Arts Studies in Research and Writing, the Department of English Language and Literatures, and the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice.
Venue: Irving K Barber Learning Centre, Seminar (Room 2.22)
Venue Website: http://www.maps.ubc.ca/PROD/index_detail.php?locat1=516
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Please note this room is located through the CTLT offices of the 2nd floor in IKBLC.