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In this episode of Engineering the Future, host Jerome James speaks with Emily Barnes, president of EngiQueers Canada, about the challenges and progress of the 2SLGBTQ+ engineering community.

They discuss the origins of EngiQueers Canada, the importance of diversity and inclusion in STEM fields, and the role of allyship in driving positive change. Emily shares insights on working with queer-friendly engineering companies, inspiring young 2SLGBTQ+ students to pursue engineering careers, and the ongoing efforts to advance equity in the profession.

Glossary of Terms

1. SSHRC Connection grant: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Connection grants support events and outreach activities geared toward short-term, targeted knowledge mobilization initiatives.
2. Knowledge mobilization: Knowledge mobilization refers to the process of promoting and facilitating the use of research by knowledge users such as decision-makers, policy-makers, practitioners, and community members. The primary aim is to help users engage with research findings as they make informed decisions regarding policies, programs, practices, and behavior.
3. 2SLGBTQ+: The acronym 2SLGBTQ+ is used to refer to people who identify as Two-spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, or queer, or with other diverse gender and/or sexual identities. To learn more about these particular identity terms, please see Egale’s 2SLGBTQI Terms and Definitions.
4. Intersectionality: Intersectionality is an analytical framework for understanding how individuals' various social identities (e.g., race, gender) in the context of related systems of oppression (e.g., race, sexism, cisgenderism) result in unique combinations of discrimination and privilege. Intersectionality identifies multiple factors of advantage and disadvantage, including gender, race, ethnicity, class, sex, sexuality, religion, disability, weight, and physical appearance. Depending on the intersecting identities one holds, a person can experience privilege, oppression, or both within society. 3
5. Cisgender: Someone is cisgender when their gender identity aligns with their sex assigned at birth. For instance, a cisgender woman is an individual who identifies as a woman and was assigned female at birth.
6. Campus Climate: Broadly, campus climate refers to the experiences and treatment of marginalized students on campus. Campus climate includes experiential aspects (such as discriminatory actions from others and systems), psychological aspects (for example, perceptions of belonging and perceptions of university inclusion policies and practices), and structural aspects (for instance, policies and resources specifically for students from marginalized communities). 
7. BIPOC: The acronym stands for Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour. It is a term used to encompass groups that are racialized and are harmed by racism and white supremacy. By centring Black and Indigenous communities, it acknowledges that these communities are particularly impacted by racism and white supremacy. 
8. Nonbinary: Refers to a spectrum of gender identities that do not exclusively align with a binary understanding of man/masculine or woman/feminine. A nonbinary person may identify outside of these binary categories entirely or may experience gender in a fluid or multifaceted way. The term "nonbinary" encompasses a diverse range of identities, including but not limited to agender, genderfluid, and genderqueer.

Our Guests:

1. Michael Woodford: Michael (he/him) is a Professor at Laurier’s Faculty of Social Work and the Associate Dean for the PhD in social work program. He is a gay, cisgender, white settler living and working on the Haldimand Tract within the territory of the Neutral, Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee people. His research addresses the inclusion/exclusion, wellbeing, and resilience of 2SLGBTQ+ people and communities. Michael specializes in the study of contemporary 2SLGBTQ+ discrimination, including microaggressions and campus climate, and their effects on 2SLGBTQ+ students’ mental health, social belonging, and academic success. His work on resilience explores multi-level factors, including social policies and programs that can protect individuals from the negative effects of discrimination. His research is interdisciplinary, utilizes quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-method designs, and is informed by an array of theories and frameworks, such as minority stress, socio-ecological theory, intersectionality, positive psychology, and community-based research. Dedicated to fostering 2SLGBTQ+ responsive services, Michael also engages in research related to inclusive healthcare and social work practice. His work is funded by various sources, including the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and he is a Fellow of the Society for Social Work and Research. Michael is the Principal Investigator for Thriving On Campus study and mobilization project. 
2. Eric Van Giessen: Eric (he/they) is a fifth-year doctoral student in Sociology at York University. His SSHRC-funded dissertation research examines the lived experiences of LGBTQ+ Christians specifically delving into how queer self-conceptions intersect with spirituality and lived religion. His interests include critical sexuality studies, lived religion, queer utopianism, and innovative queer methodologies. His approaches often incorporate community-based research and arts-based methods, reflecting a commitment to knowledge mobilization and making research accessible. Eric has been working with the Thriving On Campus project since 2019, first as an Interviewer and then as a Research Assistant helping to organize Thriving's webinar projects and the 2022-2023 Virtual Conference Series. 
3. Tin Vo: Tin (he/they) is an equity-focused researcher who is completing a postdoctoral fellowship at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto. He holds an Honours Bachelor of Science from the University of Guelph, a Master of Public Health from the University of Alberta, and PhD in Social Work from Laurier. His dissertation explored the experiences and wellbeing of 2SLGBTQ+ people within queer leisure spaces, examining inclusion/exclusion, belonging, and mental health through an intersectional lens focusing on the experiences of racialized, trans, and disabled individuals. As a Credentialed Evaluator, Tin has over ten years of research and evaluation experience in the Ontario public health, social services, and higher education sectors. Tin contributed to the Thriving On Campus study as a member of the BIPOC workgroup that focused on findings related to BIPOC students’ experiences and as a collaborator on the Virtual Conference Series that mobilized research findings and supported change on campuses.

Support & Funding

• The Centre for Leading Research in Education

Music Credits

• Shadows of Motown by Olive Musique

Resources

• The Centre for Leading Research in Education
• Visit the Thriving on Campus website
• Know the Land
• Whose Land

Glossary of Terms

1. SSHRC Insight grant: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Insight Grants aim to build knowledge and understanding about people, societies and the world by supporting research excellence in the social sciences and humanities research initiatives.
2. SSHRC Connection grant: Connection grants support events and outreach activities geared toward short-term, targeted knowledge mobilization initiatives
3. Knowledge mobilization: Knowledge mobilization refers to the process of promoting and facilitating the use of research by knowledge users such as decision-makers, policy-makers, practitioners, and community members. The primary aim is to help users engage with research findings as they make informed decisions regarding policies, programs, practices, and behavior.
4. Interdisciplinary: Interdisciplinary research integrates perspectives, concepts, theories, and/or methods from multiple disciplines or bodies of specialized knowledge to advance understanding or to solve problems whose solutions are beyond the scope of a single discipline. Research is truly interdisciplinary when it is not just pasting two disciplines together to create one product but rather is an integration and synthesis of ideas and methods.
5. 2SLGBTQ+: The acronym 2SLGBTQ+ is used to refer to people who identify as Two-spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, or queer, or with other diverse gender and/or sexual identities. To learn more about these particular identity terms, please see Egale’s 2SLGBTQI Terms and Definitions.
6. Mixed method study: Mixed methods research combines elements of qualitative and quantitative research approaches (e.g., use of qualitative focus groups with a quantitative survey) for the broad purposes of breadth and depth of understanding and corroboration.
7. Microaggressions: Microaggressions refer to often subtle, unintentional discrimination against a member of a marginalized group, such as a Black person, a trans person, or a disabled person. They can include insensitive or rude comments or actions that degrade the targeted person (i.e., microinsults), dismiss or erase their experiences (i.e., microinvalidations), or often blatantly attacks that purposefully aim to cause harm (i.e., microassaults).  Regardless of the type, microaggressions convey a negative message about the targeted group and serve to other and marginalize the group. Microaggressions occur interpersonally in exchanges between individuals and environmentally through social policies, practices, and norms.
8. Intersectionality: Intersectionality is an analytical framework for understanding how individuals' various social identities (e.g., race, gender) in the context of related systems of oppression (e.g., race, sexism, cisgenderism) result in unique combinations of discrimination and privilege. Intersectionality identifies multiple factors of advantage and disadvantage, including gender, race, ethnicity, class, sex, sexuality, religion, disability, weight, and physical appearance. Depending on the intersecting identities one holds, a person can experience privilege, oppression, or both within society.3
9. Cisgender: Someone is cisgender when their gender identity aligns with their sex assigned at birth. For instance, a cisgender woman is an individual who identifies as a woman and was assigned female at birth.
10. Campus Climate: Broadly, campus climate refers to the experiences and treatment of marginalized students on campus. Campus climate includes experiential aspects (such as discriminatory actions from others and systems), psychological aspects (for example, perceptions of belonging and perceptions of university inclusion policies and practices), and structural aspects (for instance, policies and resources specifically for students from marginalized communities).
11. BIPOC: The acronym stands for Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour. It is a term used to encompass groups that are racialized and are harmed by racism and white supremacy. By centring Black and Indigenous communities, it acknowledges that these communities are particularly impacted by racism and white supremacy.
12. Nonbinary: Refers to a spectrum of gender identities that do not exclusively align with a binary understanding of man/masculine or woman/feminine. A nonbinary person may identify outside of these binary categories entirely or may experience gender in a fluid or multifaceted way. The term "nonbinary" encompasses a diverse range of identities, including but not limited to agender, genderfluid, and genderqueer..

Our Guests

1. Michael Woodford: Michael (he/him) is a Professor at Laurier’s Faculty of Social Work and the Associate Dean for the PhD in social work program. He is a gay, cisgender, white settler living and working on the Haldimand Tract within the territory of the Neutral, Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee people. His research addresses the inclusion/exclusion, wellbeing, and resilience of 2SLGBTQ+ people and communities. Michael specializes in the study of contemporary 2SLGBTQ+ discrimination, including microaggressions and campus climate, and their effects on 2SLGBTQ+ students’ mental health, social belonging, and academic success. His work on resilience explores multi-level factors, including social policies and programs that can protect individuals from the negative effects of discrimination. His research is interdisciplinary, utilizes quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-method designs, and is informed by an array of theories and frameworks, such as minority stress, socio-ecological theory, intersectionality, positive psychology, and community-based research. Dedicated to fostering 2SLGBTQ+ responsive services, Michael also engages in research related to inclusive healthcare and social work practice. His work is funded by various sources, including the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and he is a Fellow of the Society for Social Work and Research. Michael is the Principal Investigator for Thriving On Campus study and mobilization project. 
2. Eric Van Giessen: Eric (he/they) is a fifth-year doctoral student in Sociology at York University. His SSHRC-funded dissertation research examines the lived experiences of LGBTQ+ Christians specifically delving into how queer self-conceptions intersect with spirituality and lived religion. His interests include critical sexuality studies, lived religion, queer utopianism, and innovative queer methodologies. His approaches often incorporate community-based research and arts-based methods, reflecting a commitment to knowledge mobilization and making research accessible. Eric has been working with the Thriving On Campus project since 2019, first as an Interviewer and then as a Research Assistant helping to organize Thriving's webinar projects and the 2022-2023 Virtual Conference Series. 
3. Tin Vo: Tin (he/they) is an equity-focused researcher who is completing a postdoctoral fellowship at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto. He holds an Honours Bachelor of Science from the University of Guelph, a Master of Public Health from the University of Alberta, and PhD in Social Work from Laurier. His dissertation explored the experiences and wellbeing of 2SLGBTQ+ people within queer leisure spaces, examining inclusion/exclusion, belonging, and mental health through an intersectional lens focusing on the experiences of racialized, trans, and disabled individuals. As a Credentialed Evaluator, Tin has over ten years of research and evaluation experience in the Ontario public health, social services, and higher education sectors. Tin contributed to the Thriving On Campus study as a member of the BIPOC workgroup that focused on findings related to BIPOC students’ experiences and as a collaborator on the Virtual Conference Series that mobilized research findings and supported change on campuses. 

Support & Funding

• The Centre for Leading Research in Education

Resources

• The Centre for Leading Research in Education
• Thriving on Campus –Community Reports
• Know the Land
• Whose Land

The episode features:

• Tin Vo, an equity-focused researcher and public health practitioner who is pursuing a PhD in Social Work at Wilfrid Laurier University’s Lyle S. Hallman Faculty of Social Work.
• Tin shares his dissertation research which examines intersectional discrimination of LGBTQ2S+ people and their social and mental health well-being within LGBTQ2S+ leisure spaces.
• Additional information about the research and transcript (with relevant links) are available from wlu.ca/Research-Chat

In this short bonus episode, my friend Michelle LeBlanc joins me on the podcast to talk about Project Pride! Project Pride is an upcoming outdoor bouldering event in Squamish, B.C, and is an opportunity for 2SLGBTQ+ individuals to connect and climb. Join us to learn more and check out the links below to reserve your spot!

Preregister Here!

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/project-pride-tickets-352167872587

Gripped Article:

https://gripped.com/profiles/squamish-project-pride-opportunity-for-2slgbtq-individuals-to-connect-build-community-crush-boulders/

Instagram Links:

@project.pride.squamish

@croissant.83

In this episode, Chris (he/him) and Celine (she/her), as former co-leads of UBC Medicine’s 2SLGBTQ+ Mentorship Group, talk with Dr. Eva Moore (she/they), an Adolescent Medicine Paediatrician at BC Children’s Hospital, about navigating queer identity in medicine and how we can make medicine more inclusive, and maybe a little more loud, proud and rainbow-coloured. Dr. Moore candidly shares their journey both professionally and personally, from coming out (or perhaps “inviting in”) to starting a family, and what it has meant to be “out” throughout her life and career. We discuss the power of mentorship and representation outside of and within medicine, especially for queer trainees, and while we acknowledge the progress that has been made in society and in medicine, we recognize the ongoing harms of homophobia and transphobia that exist to this day. This podcast aims to add to the conversation that we hope will continue to shift the culture in medicine, to one that not only tolerates queerness, but which actively and openly celebrates it.

Guest: Dr. Eva Moore, Adolescent Medicine Paediatrician at BC Children’s Hospital, Clinical Associate Professor and Program Director of the Adolescent Medicine Subspecialty Residency and Clinical Fellowship Training Program at UBC.

Hosted and Edited by: Chris Kobylka-Pang and Celine McCaughran-Contreras, recent graduates of the UBC MD 2022 Class.

Resources:

To learn more about the OUTreach Mentorship initiative, visit https://mdprogram.med.ubc.ca/student-affairs/mentorship/outreach-2slgbtqia-identified-in-medicine/

UBC 2SLGBTQ+ in Medicine Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ubcqueermedicine/

Canadian Queer Medical Students Association Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/cqmsa/

Recorded on the ancestral, traditional and unceded territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-waututh) Nations. 

Queer Vote Ontario is an historic coalition of 2SLBTQI+ organizations with an action plan to ensure queer and trans issues and solutions are on the agenda this election. Join us as the coalition’s co-founder Fae Johnstone shares the behind-the-scenes of how one tweet got it all started, and why we speak better and louder when there are more of us in the room.  

Guest biography: Fae Johnstone is executive director and co-owner of Wisdom2Action (W2A) and based on unceded, unsurrendered Algonquin territory in Ottawa, Ontario. She is an experienced community engagement expert, diversity and inclusion consultant, and project manager. Over her past two years working with W2A, Fae has led local, provincial, and national initiatives focused on 2SLGBTQ+ community health and wellness, youth mental health, meaningful community engagement, and gender-based violence. 

Final episode, in conversation with Cath Wright. 

The 'so what' and  summary of emerging theory and findings.

In which we discuss:

•  "How justice and injustice are enacted processes made real as they are performed again and again,” Constructivist Grounded Theory (Kathy Charmaz) and emancipatory and transformational research addressing inequality and justice. 
• Wonder woman’s plane. 
• Hidden structures of homophobic binary enforcement in the workplace and how this is enacted. 
• Homophilial mentoring. 
• Policing leadership style. 
• Holding the paradox, tension and duality as an Unbound Leader in the heteronormative workplace - Brene Brown
• Creative problem solving as Unbound Leaders. 

Link to TEDx-style talk - https://www.nbresearchproject.com/research

Part 2 of the research findings conversation with Meryn Cadell

In this episode we talk about: 

• Unbound Leadership and reflexive praxis. 
• Pride and resilience as protective factors. 
• Pronouns as gender signifiers. 
• Non-binary, queer precarity as experienced by Unbound Leaders
• Gender spectrums, and not telling or identifying exactly where Unbound Leaders sit…
• Homophobic binary policing in the workplace, and how Unbound Leaders step up to facilitate HR and co-workers addressing it through calling in, training, and policy (including policy enforcement). 
• Research as a process that finds and builds solidarity, and how it can be used to raise awareness around homophobic policing in HR. 
• The importance of bystanders and allies (and friends and family and community) in challenging the intersection of misogyny and homophobia, and homophobic binary enforcement. 

Link to Tedx talk - https://www.nbresearchproject.com/research

Jean Turner sits on the Board of Directors for Serving With Pride and joins the 10-5 Podcast to discuss  the organization and their work, its training programs, the upcoming Gala & Awards Night (October 16, 2021), “The Independent Civilian Review into Missing Person Investigations”, and the documentary film “Coming Out Cops.”

For more information on Serving with Pride, please visit www.servingwithpride.ca or contact them at info@servingwithpride.ca.

For more information on “The Independent Civilian Review into Missing Person Investigations,” please click here.

For more information on the documentary film “Coming Out Cops”, please visit www.comingoutcops.ca.

This episode of the 10-5 podcast is produced and hosted by Scott Mills and Joshua Jutras.

Music – “Line of Fire” by Jason Shaw available at Audionautix.com and used under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode

If you have any questions about this episode of the 10-5 Podcast, please email us at communications@oppa.ca

The OPP Association is the sole bargaining agent for the close to 10,000 members of the Ontario Provincial Police in Canada. Our members are our focus and our strength. We aim to provide important information to our members and the public about matters that affect policing in the province of Ontario. 

Welcome to the 37th Episode of your favourite fortnightly feminist podcast - Overdue with the sl*t and the prude! Today you're welcomed by your librarian hosts, Emma and Nora!! We are still in quarantine, so, please, if you or someone you know have a library that deserves a shoutout, DM us!

Topics of the day: 2SLGBTQ+, Gender, Sexuality, Sex, Assigned sex, and all the little in betweens!

Intro: Danse Macabre - Busy Strings by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (creativecommons.org/licenses/...)
Source: incompetech.com/music/royalty-...
Artist: incompetech.com/

ILT co-founder Steph Iron Lioness and non-binary ILT coach Aziza Miller chat about gender with documentary film maker, ILT member Hannah Donegan.

Transgender Day of Visibility (or TDOV) occurs every year on March 31st since its inception in the US in 2009.  Here in Canada, it's a holiday that gets more recognition with each passing year, and since many events won't be able to be held in person this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Caitlin thought it best to devote an episode to the day!  Joining her as a guest is the lovable Sam Busch, a trans guy from BC who's made his home in Fort Frances with his partner Logan (who you may remember from Episode 4!).

In this episode, you'll learn firsthand from Sam what the lived experience of a transgender man in Canada can be like, and how he's navigated life in a small town as a queer trans person.  He and Caitlin discuss their work with Borderland Pride the last few years - including the first 2SLGBTQ+ social group in Fort Frances, their first protest (Emo Ambush), and a project about the life of Dianna Boileau - also being released for TDOV - called "Behold Dianna".  Sam also talks about Transgender Day of Visibility and what it means to him as a member of the trans community.

To submit a ConTEXT (ideas for future episodes, jokes, stories - whatever!) send an email to outofcontextpod@gmail.com!

Transgender Day of Visibility (or TDOV) occurs every year on March 31st since its inception in the US in 2009.  Here in Canada, it's a holiday that gets more recognition with each passing year, and since many events won't be able to be held in person this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Caitlin thought it best to devote an episode to the day!  Joining her as a guest is the lovable Sam Busch, a trans guy from BC who's made his home in Fort Frances with his partner Logan (who you may remember from Episode 4!).

In this episode, you'll learn firsthand from Sam what the lived experience of a transgender man in Canada can be like, and how he's navigated life in a small town as a queer trans person.  He and Caitlin discuss their work with Borderland Pride the last few years - including the first 2SLGBTQ+ social group in Fort Frances, their first protest (Emo Ambush), and a project about the life of Dianna Boileau - also being released for TDOV - called "Behold Dianna".  Sam also talks about Transgender Day of Visibility and what it means to him as a member of the trans community.

To submit a ConTEXT (ideas for future episodes, jokes, stories - whatever!) send an email to outofcontextpod@gmail.com!