Location: Room 1099, Buchanan Tower, 1873 East Mall, UBC
Please note that the event is being postponed for now.
Dr. Annette Henry: Sex (Education) in the City
The Social Justice Institute Noted Scholars Series presents:
“Sex (Education) in the City: Problematizing discussions about adolescent sexuality with members of a Jamaican inner-city community”
Dr. Annette Henry, Professor, David Lam Chair in Multicultural Education, UBC
In this talk, I share aspects of a collaborative work-in-progress. I begin with a brief discussion regarding my commitments and challenges in working in and with Black communities in various settings. I look forward to thinking through this project with the GRSJ community as I grapple with interview data from this focus group study with mothers, teachers, and inner-city school community in Kingston, Jamaica. I draw from a range of perspectives including gender and sexuality studies. The findings reveal as much about sex socialisation in this community as the ideas of gender, identity and of “Jamaicanness,” all legacies of a complex, colonial history between African and European cultures.
Annette Henry holds the David Lam Chair in Multicultural Education in the Faculty of Education at The University of British Columbia. Her scholarship examines race, class, language, gender and culture in socio-cultural contexts of teaching and learning in the lives of Black students, Black oral histories, and Black women teachers’ practice in Canada, the U.S. and the Caribbean. She has written extensively about equity in the academy, diverse feminisms and conceptual and methodological research issues especially in culture-specific contexts. She is the 2018 recipient of the Canadian Association of University Teachers Equity Award.
Visit her profile page here for more information.
This talk will take place on the traditional, unceded, and occupied territories of the Musqueam people.