Join the the Queer Studies in Education and Culture (QSEC) group this winter for their QT2SBIPOC WORLDMAKING IN EDUCATION Speaker Series.
This month, Marie Lang and Robert Durocher discuss Indigiqueer and Two Spirit Futurities
Thursday January 27 6pm EST/3pm PST
THE EVENT
Indigiqueer & 2S Futurities in Education: A Conversation with Marie Laing & Robert Durocher
Marie Laing and Robert Durocher will discuss how Canada’s Euro-American colonial capitalist ableist cisheteropatriarchal schooling system could be reinvisioned through an Indigiqueer + 2S lens. The talk will invite Marie & Robert to share their thoughts about the role of Land/land, ceremony and youth in Indigiqueer-ing education.
THE SPEAKERS
Marie Laing is a queer writer, educator, and youth leader at the Native Youth Sexual Health Network. She is Kanyen’kehá:ka (turtle clan), and her family comes from Six Nations of the Grand River, as well as Ireland, Scotland, and South Africa. She earned her M.A. from the Department of Social Justice Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. Her first book, Urban Indigenous Youth Reframing Two-Spirit (Routledge, 2021), shares the findings of her master’s thesis research — a series of conversations with fellow two-spirit, queer and trans Indigenous young people in Toronto about the term two-spirit.
Robert Durocher (Métis/French) is a gay/queer/indigequeer educator and artist. Currently, he is Centrally Assigned Vice-Principal, Indigenous Education at the Urban Indigenous Education Centre at Toronto District School Board. Previous to this he worked as Instructional Leader, Indigenous Education where he initiated the first Two-Spirit/Indigequeer Pride. Robert worked at York University’s Faculty of Education with arts education and teacher candidates. He enjoy drawing, collage and photography when he has time.
Register for the event here: https://utoronto.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0oc–vrzMrGtYUq2Wxnbkd7RCq1yM5Dzxb
