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Queerness In The Classroom: A Talk By Award Winning Author Vivek Shraya
Queerness In The Classroom
Date: October 17, 2018
Time: 11 am
Location: Lago Vista, room 121-122
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Queerness In The Classroom:
A Talk By Award Winning Author Vivek Shraya
Wednesday, Oct 17, 2018
11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
CCC Lago Vista Room 121-122
Vivek Shraya Presentation: Queerness In Classrooms
Queer and gender creative youth remain largely invisible in the classroom in both the curriculum and in the texts themselves. This often perpetuates feelings of isolation for queer youth. In this presentation, Vivek discusses her own experiences of invisibility in school as inspiration for creating art that features gender creative protagonists and the impact this work has had in the classroom. This will feature a reading from several of her acclaimed books including “The Boy & the Bindi” and “God Loves Hair.”