Basically Queer: An intergenerational introduction to LGBTQA2S+ lives
Editors:
Claire Robson, Kelsey Blair, Jen Marchbank (eds)
Publisher:
Peter Lang Publishers, New York, 2017
Description:
Around 2014 Claire and Jen decided to get their two LGBTQ2SIA+ activist groups together. Claire was with QUIRKe – queer imaging and riting collective for elders and Jen co-facilitates Youth 4 A Change with her wife Sylvie Traphan (GSWS MA alumni). What began as a writing workshop became Call and Response where the two groups sent each other writing prompts. This led to the youth travelling to Vancouver to workshop these writings with the QUIRKes. That developed into a spoken word performance called ‘Call and Response’ which played in Surrey, Vancouver and opened New Westminster Pride week in 2016. Then the plotting began – Claire (GSWS adjunct), Kelsey (then English PhD candidate) and Jen brought together writings of lived experience; no nonsense explanations; and engaging stories to answer the question, what is it like to be queer? And answering it in a much needed intergenerational conversation.
Citation:
Claire Robson, Kelsey Blair, Jen Marchbank (eds), 2017, Basically Queer: An intergenerational introduction to LGBTQA2S+ lives, Peter Lang Publishers, New York, ISBN 978-1-43331-3345-9
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