Ms Low wanted me to send you this— and to tell you she and your teachers are very proud!

Yay Florence! I hope to be joining you very soon…

Maybe visit the AGO, take a walk through Kensington and sit in a cafe for awhile? Sadly the Arquives are appointment only, but perhaps you could give them a call!

Rosedale is proud of you Yuvraj!

Her final quote is 🔥

Happening tomorrow!

#EdSky #QueerEd #QueerEducation #LGBTQIA #ArtsEd #QueerResearch #QueerJoy

I was so sad to miss this 😢 I had a meeting at the same time. Yay Sam!!

Arts-based and queer pedagogies have much to offer educators and researchers interested in interdisciplinary approaches to working with young people. In this keynote presentation, I draw from my doctoral research, which used critical arts-based research to explore students’ experiences of queer joy and challenge at school. Critical arts-based research (Finley et al, 2014) draws from critical pedagogy and applied theatre; it also shares characteristics with queer theory and aesthetics. I argue that these qualities give it the potential to “queer” traditional research practices (Fields et al, 2014) and enrich diverse fields of study with cross-disciplinary knowledge. In this presentation, I share examples of queer methods used in my study, which helped students embody their subjugated experiences, challenge the status quo, and imagine their school differently. I argue that these methods enacted a “pedagogy of utopia” (Busby, 2021) with moments of “disorientation” (Ahmed, 2006) that were both troubling and transformative. This pedagogical approach helped foster an environment of joyful subversion and collective agency in participants, while generating insights into their joys and challenges at school. The study’s methodological findings offer new “orientations” for educators interested in issues of social justice, as well as scholars looking to adopt artful methods into their research. . Date: May 29th 2025, 9-10am AEST Zoom link: https://unisq.zoom.us/j/81399251357?from=addon

I’m very excited to be doing a virtual keynote for USQ on my PhD research! This talk will focus on queer and critical arts based pedagogies and how they might be used in teaching & research contexts. Hope to see you there!

Thursday, 29 May 2025
9-10am AEST

unisq.zoom.us/j/8139925135...

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I taught Bells in high school and he’s a gem of a person and a supremely talented musician. I’m glad his story and his music is being shared so widely— thank you!

I read a thesis with a ‘recriminations’ section

I love that book!!

Kim Snider Bio

With the last Hunt-Simes Institute in Sexuality Studies three weeks away, we’d like to introduce our fantastic cohort! First up, Kim Snider @kimberleyblue.bsky.social from the University of Auckland.
Kim is excited to (re)imagine what a queer school might look like with other participants!
#HISS2025

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Gifts for teachers:
- a 30 second dance party button
- gift card for something practical like Instacart or DoorDash
- a note about something specific you/your kid likes about them/their class
- not a mug
- no for real, not a mug.

I’m so excited for this (and also sad my research wasn’t in time for this special issue!)

Same for the Cdn healthcare system!

Pachinko

When people say they’re playing the devil’s advocate I like to reply ‘the devil doesn’t need any help.’

The fact that writers can use various combinations of 26 letters to make me care about people who never existed and then destroy me emotionally by making them suffer is the weirdest, most unfair, and wonderful of magics

Me too please!

My school has the best librarian in Toronto— give her a follow!

I’m so happy to see you here— my only regret when deleting twitter was that I no longer had a record of the lovely reply you made to one of my posts!

This book has been so helpful to me!!

I will!

I will!

JJ I am such a fan and will definitely get in touch! And maybe you are going to be at HISS in February in Sydney??