Thursday July 29, 2021 @ 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm EST | Online
In this workshop, titled after their spoken word poem “violet delights,” Quinn Casey (they/them; Mr.) is going to lead a three-part journey into the beauty and chaos of gender, as we know it today. Starting with their own partly poetic and partly educational story on the privilege of being trans, Quinn will encourage you to flip the script on the ways that trans stories are told and represented, moving from a narrative of trans, nonbinary people as resilient underdog archetype and into a narrative of trans, nonbinary people as fathomable possibilities. You will leave with an understanding of why trans and nonbinary people’s creative self-expression is not only worthy and loveable but also invigorating, powerful, and celebratory.
Adopting intersectionality and decolonization into their practice, Quinn will infuse their workshop with hands-on activities that offer practical strategies for addressing transphobia in your school community based on common scenarios. These activities can be done individually or as groups in breakout rooms. In addition, you will be introduced to flexible lesson plans that can be adapted for various age groups and that aim to reveal how to kindle all the things that make gender fun, like experimentation and diversity, and none of the things that make gender hurtful, like patriarchy and racism. The final part of the workshop will be dedicated to a question-and-answer opportunity, an LGBTQ&A if you will, in which you may ask Quinn anything you desire and engage in further dialogue.
About Quinn Casey
Quinn Casey (they/them; Mr.) is a trans, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming educator and writer. They are a Texan-Canadian settler, currently living on and building reconciliatory relations with the stolen and ancestral land of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm, Skwxwú7mesh, & Səl̓ílwətaʔ nations. They graduated from McGill University in Tio’tia:ke with a Bachelor of Arts in International Development and English Literature and then from the University of British Columbia with a Bachelor of Education. At Stratford Hall in East Vancouver, they teach Grade 6 Visual Arts, Grade 8 Humanities, Grade 9 Photography, and Grade 10 Humanities. For the past five years, they have investigated the Western gender binary’s role in mainstream overculture and the gender diversity variance within marginalized societies in order to understand the ways we experience and express gender today.