G&S Week Digital Bundle

Living beyond the binary: decolonising Queer communities | Jioji Ravulo | TEDxSydney

Queer culture has a whiteness problem. We need to move beyond Western ideas of queerness and embrace first nations practice’s that allow us to live beyond the binary, and embrace all the colours of the wind. Professor Jioji Ravulo integrates these concepts with knowledge from both his work as an academic as well as his years of lived experience. Leaving us with new ideas to consider, and methods to practically implement in order to create safe spaces for all. Professor Jioji Ravulo is the Professor and Chair of Social Work and Policy Studies in the Sydney School of Education and Social Work at The University of Sydney. His research, writing and areas of interest include mental health and wellbeing, alcohol and other drugs, youth development, marginality and decoloniality. Jioji has experience working as a manager in youth crisis centres and is involved in clinical work across the community, including providing counselling support for players across the National Rugby League. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

Paris is Burning is available on DVD at the PLU Library or you can stream it for free on Tubi.

This iconic 1990 documentary follows the ballroom scene of New York City in the 1980s, centering the pivotal roles of queer and trans Black and Latine communities.

Queer Ecology, Explained

“Queer Ecology is an emerging field that brings together queer theory, ecological thought, and critical science studies. It questions heteronormative assumptions in science and environmentalism — and offers alternatives rooted in fluidity, multiplicity, and interdependence.”

“Do you know the true narratives that shape the people, animals and lands of the Coast Salish People? This episode of All My Relations explores Lushootseed creation histories as living knowledge.” Learn more & listen to this episode here

All My Relations is a podcast dedicated to exploring what it means to be a contemporary Native person. To be Indigenous is to be in relationship—to land, to ancestors, to non-human kin, and to one another. This podcast is a space to honor and investigate those relationships, and to think deeply about Indigeneity in all its complexity.

This episode “discusses the mounting legal threats to Tribal Nationhood, citizenship, and sovereignty. As executive orders and court cases attempt to undermine Native status and question our birthright citizenship, we unpack what’s happening and what’s at stake.” Learn more & listen to this episode here

All My Relations is a podcast dedicated to exploring what it means to be a contemporary Native person. To be Indigenous is to be in relationship—to land, to ancestors, to non-human kin, and to one another. This podcast is a space to honor and investigate those relationships, and to think deeply about Indigeneity in all its complexity.

• Share the schedule of events going on for G&S Week and then ask folks which events they’re most interested in attending. BONUS: Pick up punch cards from the Center for DJS to share with your meeting attendees – if they attend 4 different kinds of events during the week, they win Lute Bucks!
• Invite people in your class or meeting to share about someone in their life who inspired them to think outside the box or taught them it was okay to be different
• Invite people in your class or meeting to share one of their favorite queer media (books, musicians, shows, movies, artists, etc.)

• In your meeting or class, highlight 1-3 2SLGBTQIA+ people from your field, and invite folks to spend 5 minutes reaching one or more individuals. Have a few attendees share with the group some of what they learned about the person they looked up.
  • Examples: Alan Turing (Mathematics & Computer Science), Dr. Valerie Stone (Medicine & Public Health), Sally Ride (Physicist & Astronaut), Alice Dunbar Nelson (Poetry & Journalism), Frida Kahlo (Art)

More Coming Soon!