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Our Goal
The goal of our project is to video interview LGBTQ families across Ontario about their children’s experiences in school and share our findings from these interviews with teachers, community educators, and other LGBTQ families. We use the initialism LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and queer) with the intention of including people who identify as transgender, transsexual, two-spirit, questioning, intersex, asexual, ally, pansexual, agender, gender queer, gender variant, and/or pangender. We understand the names people use to describe their gender and sexual identities are always evolving and that the most important thing is to be respectful and to use names that people prefer. Progress Report To date -January 9, 2019 - we
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Upcoming performance
Join us on April 7, 2019 OISE's Doing Research with Art Event where we will be presenting two Monologues from Out at School. The OISE Library 252 Bloor Street West (St. George subway) 6:00-8:30 pm Now out!
Teaching Gender and Sexuality at School: Letters to Teachers by Tara Goldstein. With contributions by benjamin lee hicks, Jenny Salisbury and Pam Baer. In a set of letters to teachers, Tara addresses a full range of issues facing LGBTQ students and families at elementary and secondary school. She also talks to teachers about normalizing LGBTQ lives in the curriculum, challenging homophobic and transphobic ideas, and building an inclusive school culture that both expects and welcomes LGBTQ students and their families. The book also includes a terrific nuanced glossary of terms and definitions written by team member benjamin lee hicks and the plays Snakes and Ladders and Out at School. 
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A selection of our video clips... |
"Pushing the Envelope" and "Let Love Be The Way" are songs composed by research team member and musician Kate Reid from our verbatim theatre project Out at School. The monologues, the visual images, and the songs in Out at School are based on the excerpts from our interviews with LGBTQ families."Pushing the Envelope"
Written and performed by Kate Reid, 2017 Recorded by Stew Crookes Produced by Stew Crookes and Kate Reid Musicians Kate Reid: vocals, acoustic guitar Stew Crookes: pedal steel Doug Friesen: stand-up and electric bass Roger Travassos: percussion "Let Love Be The Way" Written and performed by Kate Reid, 2018 Recorded by Stew Crookes Produced by Stew Crookes and Kate Reid Assistant engineering by Andrew Scott Musicians Kate Reid (vocals, acoustic guitar) Andrew Scott (drums, percussion) Kurt Nielsen (bass) Todd Lumley (piano and synth) |
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