About this FREE event
This presentation will provide an overview of the ways that queer people grappled with the requirement to stay at home during the height of the Covid pandemic.
In public health orders, “home” created a particular ideal: safe, well, and uncomplicated. But like all ideals, “home” was always complicated with taken-for-granted untruths: assumptions that everyone has a home, that homes have enough space and resources within them to meet our needs, that homes are filled with the people most important to us, that homes are safer than what lies beyond the front door.
Many people–particularly queer and trans people–have not had that experience of home, and staying at home meant losing out on a sense of self
The presentation draws on interviews conducted in Spring 2021 with 44 people in the Greater Toronto Area about their experiences of the Covid pandemic and restrictive public health responses. The researchers think about stay-at-home orders as measures that not only required that we shelter in place, but also restricted our ability to live beyond the usual ideas of family and home so where we create new possibilities, selves, and worlds.
Our Presenters
Jessica Fields (she/her) is a Professor of Health & Society and of Sociology at the University of Toronto. Her research focuses on sexuality, gender, race, and youth, and she is interested in how teaching and learning can expand our sense of what’s possible for yourselves and others. Jessica lives in Toronto with her partner, son, dog, and cat.
Sarah Williams (she/her) is a medical anthropologist and Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Gender Studies at Brown University. Her research focuses on gender, racism, medicine, and public health, with a particular interest in reproductive health. A recent transplant to Rhode Island, she travels back to Toronto whenever she can.
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About the Patient and Family Learning Space:
The RBC Patient and Family Learning Space (PFLS) is an interactive hub for patients, families and the community to access reliable information about mental health, substance use and recovery. We offer our services in-person* and virtually, and our resources are available in print, web and app format. Through the PFLS you can attend interactive workshops and webinars, and discover a variety of community-based services that might help you in your recovery.
*Given the current COVID-19 situation we are only offering virtual services at this time.
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