Symposium helps celebrate launch of LGBTQ Studies program – U of AB

Camaraderie, conversation and collaboration. These are just a few words guiding the new LGBTQ Studies program at UT, which celebrated its launch with a Queer Camaraderie symposium.

The symposium, which began last night and continues today, will feature professors and researchers at UT and across the country, all with an interest in telling the history of the LGBTQ community.

Kim TallBear, a professor at the University of Alberta, started the symposium off with a reading of poetry by members of the LGBTQ community about their experiences.

“I’ve found that a lot of the time, the LGBTQ community has been defined by those who don’t understand it,” Tallbear said. “This LGBTQ community needs to be able to define themselves.”

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