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Ariel Goldberg

"Being with Snapshots in the Trans Archives"

Lee Airton

Lansdowne Lecturer
Presented in partnership with UVic Social Sciences

The Next Five Years:
What will progress, go backwards, and stay the same in how Canadian K-12 schools seek to welcome gender diversity?

Thursday, Nov. 9th, 2023
1:00-2:30 PM Pacific Time: Join Lee for Coffee @ Bibliocafe
7:00 PM-8:30 PM Pacific Time: "The Next Five Years" lecture
UVic Clearihue A127 & Zoom

Publicly funded school boards across Canada have embraced, policy-wise, the advent of gender identity and gender expression human rights protections, as well as the emergence of gender diversity within student populations at all levels. Much of this policymaking has happened in a grey period: without caselaw that has yet to emerge from human rights tribunal decisions testing the scope of these protected grounds and more clearly defining related forms of discrimination in schools. In addition, provincial and territorial governments have been hesitant to issue directives on how, exactly, gender identity and gender expression discrimination must be proactively and reactively addressed. Throughout this time, Dr. Lee Airton has been supporting school boards, independent schools, teachers, administrators and related organizations in navigating this grey period: between policy and law. In this talk, Dr. Airton reflects on the Canadian K-12 teacher’s changing experience as schools endeavour to enact ambitious gender diversity policy while anti-transgender movements and discourses gain steam across Canada. 

Dr. Lee Airton is an Assistant Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies in Education at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. In 2012, Dr. Airton founded , the first Q+A-based blog about gender-neutral pronoun usage and user support with over 30,000 unique visitors in 2017 alone. In 2016, Dr. Airton founded the , a national social media initiative that helps people show support for transgender peoples' right to have their pronouns used. In 2021, Dr. Airton and their research team launched [pronounced gee gee dot c a], the first bilingual self-advocacy resource for K-12 students who are experiencing gender expression and gender identity discrimination at school. 

Dr. Airton's first book,  offers practical steps for welcoming gender diversity in everyday life, and has been adopted as a key professional development text in teacher education programs, school districts, public sector and private sector organizations. With Dr. Susan Woolley, they recently edited  (Canadian Scholars Press), the first such anthology to be published.

Highlights: 2023 Moving Trans History Forward Conference

Presented by Chair in Transgender Studies
and UVic's EQHR: 5 Days of Action

This session will provide highlights from the 2023 conference and will feature a selection of presentations from MTHF23, including in-person local speakers who will briefly talk about their research (Sage Dunn-Krahn, Şansal Gümüşpala, & Lydia Toorenburgh), and recorded video presentations from international researchers (Anshuman & Aaron Beck). Join Dr. Aaron Devor, and the Chair in Transgender Studies team, and help to move Trans+ history forward.

The 2023 hybrid edition of the Moving Trans History Forward conference, presented by UVic’s Chair in Transgender Studies, took place both in person at the University of Victoria and online March 30th – April 2nd. The biennial conferences are international, interdisciplinary, and intergenerational. MTHF23 brings together community activists, academics, artists, and allies from around the world to consider both our history, and the crucial issues which impact us today, and into the future—locally, nationally, and globally.

A Trans Voice Introductory Workshop with Jess Gibbard

Over the past several years Jess Gibbard (She/They) has been actively working as a voice coach for binary and nonbinary Trans+ individuals. With a specialization in voice feminization, they have helped many people begin their personal voice journeys. She has a long history with voice.  She has always held a deep fascination for the production and manipulation of speech and sound, and is currently studying a BSc in Linguistics at the University of Victoria. Jess has aspirations to pursue a MSc in Speech Language Pathology at the University of British Columbia upon completion of her BSc.

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Julia Sinclair-Palm

"What does it mean to protect trans children?
Exploring debates about the figure of the trans child"

Dr. Julia Sinclair-Palm (they/she) is an Associate Professor in Childhood and Youth Studies in the Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies at Carleton University. In their work, they examine how young people forge new identities, imagine futures and navigate structural inequalities in the midst of larger, and sometimes restrictive narratives about childhood and youth.

JONAH GARDE

In the spring of 1931, a strange story made headlines in the Austrian daily press: In order to change their sex, a well-known Viennese artist had successfully persuaded the imperial zoo to sell them a black male goat as an organ donor. Transplanted into the person’s abdomen the goat’s gonads were hoped to take root and transform the person’s sex by secreting “male hormones.” Performed by a well-respected Viennese doctor the sensational surgery quickly attracted several newspapers who sought interviews with the person in question and opened a debate about the possibilities of so-called “artificial sex changes.”

In my talk, I ask what fragmented stories like these tell us about trans* history, its colonial discontents, and how animals animated early ideas of “sex change.” I outline the contours of these trans*species encounters by tracing its origins in modern endocrinology and analyzing the human/animal divide, its racial underpinnings and the global entanglements that animated the discourse on “sex change” in early 20^th century Europe. Drawing on a range of newspaper articles, medical case files and endocrinological research, I argue that the extraction and valorization of animals as well as the dehumanization of racialized Others served to rewrite and reimagine sex as malleable and plastic.

Jonah I. Garde (they/them) is a PhD student at the Interdisciplinary Center for Gender Studies at the University of Bern, Switzerland and currently a Visiting Research Student at the Chair in Transgender Studies at the University of Victoria, Canada. For their PhD thesis, which looks at the modern/colonial entanglements of early 20th century trans* histories, Jonah has received a Rosa-Luxemburg doctoral grant (2018-2021) and a mobility scholarship by the University of Bern (2022). Recent publications include “Provincializing Trans* Modernities” (2021) and, together with Simon Noa Harder, “Approaches to Trans*formative Pedagogies. A Conversation” (2021).

Contact: jonah.garde@izfg.unibe.ch