SOGI Inclusive Education & Leadership

Building an anti-oppressive and SOGI-focused educational environment for all students

This three-evening institute will introduce you to a number of anti-racist and decolonial frameworks to think with and address sexuality and gender in its complex intersections. We suggest that building educational environments that are simultaneously anti-oppressive and SOGI-focused is essential to equitable and socially just educational outcomes. Skilled facilitators and community-based professionals will provide interactive opportunities for you to explore inclusive pedagogical approaches and curricular interventions, which will assist you in addressing educational gaps and support you in cultivating your own anti-racist and decolonial SOGI K-12 practices.

We will present ready-to-use resources, activities, and group discussions in a supportive environment. During the three sessions, you will have the opportunity to critically engage with your own identities and relationships to gender, sexuality, race, colonialism and land as a way of deepening our collective commitment towards solidarity and intersectionality. You will also engage with a number of community-based professionals who will share their knowledge, lived experiences, and educational strategies.

This institute aims to support educators as they work to disrupt the binary in gender and sexuality education by building strategies to work through the discomfort of un/learning. Workshops will guide you through embodied practices that address the ways racism and colonialism continue to infiltrate and shape our pedagogy as educators. By working in community with the facilitators and your colleagues, you will be able to cultivate the skills and knowledge necessary to address your own relationship to land, race and colonialism and equip you with the tools to teach with an intersectional and anti-oppressive lens.