The Toronto District School Board and the Canadian Centre for Gender and Sexual Diversity are excited to announce an upcoming conference for TDSB secondary school LGBTQI2S students and their allies!
This conference is for youth and educators and focuses on issues of homophobia, transphobia, transmisogyny, bullying, sexism racism, ableism, and discrimination in schools. It’s a full day of workshops, speakers, and resources specifically designed to suit the needs of your school community.
Students involved with gay straight-alliances, queer-straight alliances, equity clubs or groups of engaged students interested in social justice, are encouraged to attend. We welcome you to come and engage in learning about how to create safer schools, free from homophobia and transphobia and other forms of oppression.
This conference will also give you the opportunity to:
· Connect with other lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans* gender, queer and straight youth from across the TDSB;
· Increase your leadership skills
· Learn how to create a more inclusive school that values diversity and difference and be a change agent in your community
· Learn how to be an ally
· Explore your own identities
· Learn how to create healthier relationship behaviours in your life based on respect and consent
Sessions also include teacher training on engaging students in conversations about Healthy Relationships in a queer and trans* inclusive way.
The full conference program has now been uploaded to the website.
Date: November 19, 2015
Location: Central Technical School
This will be a full-day conference
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Please visit the Gender-Based Violence Prevention site: https://www.tdsb.on.ca/gbvp
Please direct any questions about the Conference to:
Michelle Cho
Student Equity Program Advisor
Gender-Based Violence Prevention Office
Toronto District School Board
647-215-5861
michelle.cho@tdsb.on.ca