Well, this has been a busy semester, and this blog has gathered way too much dust for any respectable blogger.  But I've been deeply immersed in teaching "Introduction to Sexual Diversity Studies" this fall at McGill and have poured all of my creative energy and limited free time into developing and offering this course. 

It is an interesting beast as it is structured as a lecture-only format since there are 150 students in the course and the room assigned is an immense lecture hall.  Needless to say, I didn't find this the ideal format for a course that is designed to model and teach about queer theory, critical pedagogy and connect with students personally and intellectually.  Fortunately, I have 2 wonderful TAs and have managed to break the class down into seminar meetings throughout the term.

I apologize for my abrupt ending to the last post. I was so filled with energy and inspiration after AERA that I started writing as soon as I got home and then got pulled back into "real life" and haven't had a chance to come back to this.

I had a great week at AERA (American Educational Research Association annual meeting) in NYC. I had some great conversations with teachers and teacher educators there, but I also saw an amazing show that I have to talk about first.

I am so excited to be a part of this project and to help others make links between their own work and the ideas advanced by Paulo Freire. There are many diverse scholars involved in this work and I just wanted to take a moment to talk briefly about what I hope to offer here on my blog. As a feminist scholar I am very interested in examining gender dynamics and as a queer scholar looking at how sex, gender, and sexual orientation shape and inform our identities and experiences.