Engaging Education Work in and With LGBTQ+ People and Communities

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

In this session, scholars discuss four community-engaged research projects to explore the opportunities, needs, and ethical challenges such work entails. Focused specifically on community-engaged work within LGBTQ+ communities, this symposium begins with an overview of each project followed by unpacking a range of issues that have emerged in “doing the work.” These issues include addressing the geographic specificity of such work, grappling with the risks and rewards of creating space for LGBTQ+ communities, navigating the emotional realities of working alongside multiply marginalized community members, and managing conflicts as they emerge in such research. Conversations will be open to audience participation, providing a forum for collaboratively thinking through the practical, challenging, and pleasurable aspects of community-engaged research alongside its possibilities.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Queer Studies

Chair

• Nic M. Weststrate, University of Illinois at Chicago

Papers

• Mapping Futures, Mapping Life: Digital Survival Skills for #QueerYouthGeographers - Cindy Cruz, University of Arizona

• Feeling Intergenerational in a Study of Youth and Sexual Risk - Jessica Fields, University of Toronto - Scarborough; Jen Gilbert, University of Toronto - OISE

• Sustaining LGBTQ+ Intergenerational Dialogues: Notes From the In-Between Spaces - Adam Joseph Greteman, School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Nic M. Weststrate, University of Illinois at Chicago; Lisa Moore, University of Chicago; Karen Morris, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

• Pedagogies of Abolition: A Phenomenological Exploration of Radical Study in Black Trans Communities - Qui Alexander, University of Toronto

Discussant

• Shamari Reid, New York University