In recognition of Bisexuality Awareness week (September 16th - 23rd) the LGBTQ Families Speak Out research team would like to highlight Jessica from the Skinner Family. Jessica identifies as bisexual and her family have been strong and outspoken advocates for their daughter who transitioned in elementary school. Jessica and her family have been huge supporters of the LGBTQ Families Speak Out research project, often speaking in Tara’s Gender, Sexuality and School course and have been featured in an article about teacher allyship. You can watch the Skinner Family videos here and learn more about how you can support the bisexual community below: 

glaad 
Bisexuality Org 
Xtra 
Bi Visibility Day Events 

The LGBTQ Families Speak Out research team would like to welcome everyone back to school! We hope you have an amazing and inspiring year, full of learning and personal growth. We have many resources for students, families and educators that can be found in the resources tab as well as the growing collection of videos and podcasts available on the website. These are great starting points to create LGBTQ inclusive classrooms and spaces as we start a new, exciting year. 

We are delighted to share the news that two Members from the LGBTQ Families Speak Out team are now members of the Executive Committee of QSEC -QUEER STUDIES IN EDUCATION AND CULTURE (www.qsec.ca). Tara Goldstein is Co-President of QSEC with Lee Airton from Queen’s University and Kate Reid is one of the Grad Student Representatives.  QSEC’s mandate is to bring together scholars of gender and sexuality within the Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE) (https://csse-scee.ca) which meets once a year at the annual Congress Conference. The 2020 CSSE conference will take place from May 30-June 4, 2020 at Western University in London, Ontario.
​
For its program at CSSE QSEC encourages submissions from the wide-ranging topics presently constituting queer research and practice in education and culture from cross-cultural, historical, political, policy, comparative, and other perspectives.  Proposals need be submitted to through the CSSE website by October 1, 2019