Quirk-e (the queer imaging & riting collective for elders) and YfAC (Youth for A Change) and the SFU GSWS Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women¹s Studies are proud to announce
Basically Queer Book Launch
Basically Queer: An intergenerational introduction to LGBTQA2S+ lives edited by Claire Robson, Kelsey Blair, and Jen Marchbank.
Monday, February 26, 2018
7:00 Â 8:30 pm
Simon Fraser University
Surrey Campus
250-13450 102nd Avenue
Surrey, BC V3T 0A3
Room 5240
Readings and performan...
Quirk-e (the queer imaging & riting collective for elders) and YfAC (Youth for A Change) and the SFU GSWS Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women¹s Studies are proud to announce
Basically Queer Book Launch
Basically Queer: An intergenerational introduction to LGBTQA2S+ lives edited by Claire Robson, Kelsey Blair, and Jen Marchbank.
Monday, February 26, 2018
7:00 Â 8:30 pm
Simon Fraser University
Surrey Campus
250-13450 102nd Avenue
Surrey, BC V3T 0A3
Room 5240
Readings and performances.
Free admission and refreshments. Books available for purchase.
Introduction by Dr. Lara Campbell
Dr. Lara Campbell is a Professor and the Department Chair of Gender, Sexuality, and Womenâs Studies at Simon Fraser University. She teaches courses in Canadian womenâs history, the history of social protest, the history of the 1960s, feminist theory, and an introduction to gender studies. She is the co-organizer of Vancouverâs Café Minerva, a free gender and womenâs history group which holds events in Vancouver. Her current research is on the history of the Vietnam war and the transnational and gendered politics of the draft resistance and antiwar movements in North America. She is also co-editing an edited collection on the emotional history of second wave feminism in Canada with Catherine Gidney and Michael Dawson. She was awarded the Deanâs Medal for Excellence in Academic research, teaching, and service (Simon Fraser University, 2015); the National Capital Committee on the Scholarship, Preservation and Dissemination of Womenâs History, Marion Dewar Prize, 2011 [Outstanding scholar based on record of research, teaching and administrative work]; Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Cormack Teaching Award, 2010-11; and two Honourable Mentions for Respectable Citizens: Gender, Family, and Unemployment in Ontarioâs Great Depression (UTP, 2009): the Sir John A. MacDonald Prize in Canadian History, Canadian Historical Association, 2010 and the Canadian Womenâs Studies Association, 2011 (for Respectable Citizens).
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