For anyone around Brighton this should be a very good event.
RSVP details below.
Dr. Kath Browne,
Senior Lecturer,
School of the Environment,
Cockcroft Building,
Lewes Road,
Brighton,
BN2 4GJ,
England.
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From: Aimée White
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Subject: RE: Creating Strong and Safe Queer Communities. 10th December.
Brighton
Hello,
all,
An
exciting talk has been organised featuring Cindy Holmes and Dr Catherine
Donovan. Details below should you wish to attend (also available here: Creating
Strong and Safe Queer Communities)
Please
RSVP to [log in to unmask].
Kind
regards,
Aimee White
Broken Rainbow
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10th December 2008
6.00pm – 8.00pm
Location: University of Brighton, Grand parade campus, B54
START:
6pm ‐
Dr Catherine Donovan PhD, Reader in
Sociology. (tbc) Uni of Sunderland and Uni of
Bristol, C Donovan, M Hester, J Holmes & M McCarry, "Comparing
domestic abuse in same sex & heterosexual relationships", November
2006.
6.45pm
Refreshments
6.50pm
Cindy Holmes,
MA, PhD student, University of British Columbia, Canada - Creating Strong and Safe Queer
Communities: Reflections on LGBTQ Domestic Violence Strategies from British
Columbia, Canada
In this talk, Cindy will discuss her recent
work in British Columbia Canada and some of the challenges faced in educating
about violence in lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer communities,
with a focus on two violence prevention and training projects she coordinated.
She will speak about some of the challenges and complexities faced in this work
such as: how we conceptualize and educate about what is healthy or unhealthy in
queer relationships and the need to integrate an analysis of racism and
colonialism in our LGBTQ anti-violence strategies
7.40
– 8.00pm open discussion/ways forward.
Cindy Holmes has been working with community
groups in Canada for over twenty years on many social justice issues including
violence against women, violence in LGBT communities, racism and anti-oppression
education. She is the former coordinator of two LGBTQ anti-violence initiatives
in British Columbia , Canada where she developed a violence prevention and
service provider training program to address violence in queer women’s
relationships. She is currently a PhD student at the University of British
Columbia where her dissertation research draws on feminist, anti-colonial and
interlocking theories of violence to examine violence on non-heteronormative,
gender non-conforming and racialised bodies.
She is the author (with Janice
Ristock) of “Exploring discursive constructions of lesbian abuse: Looking
inside and out”, in Survivor rhetoric: Negotiations and narrativity in
abused women’s language, edited by Christine Shearer-Cremean and Carol L.
Winklemann; and of the article “Destabilizing homonormativity and the
public/private dichotomy in North American lesbian domestic violence
discourses” forthcoming in January 2009 in the journal Gender, Place and
Culture.
Dr Catherine Donovan. Catherine
is a reader in Sociology and Director of the International Centre for the Study
of Violence and Abuse in the School of Health, Natural and Social Sciences,
University of Sunderland. She has carried out numerous research papers,
including: Uni of Sunderland and Uni of Bristol, C Donovan, M Hester, J Holmes
& M McCarry, "Comparing domestic abuse in same sex & heterosexual
relationships", November 2006.
The research was carried out between January 2005 and November
2006, and was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council. It was
informed by an Advisory Group consisting of representatives from Broken
Rainbow, the Northern Rock Foundation, Northumbria Probation Service,
University of Portsmouth Equalities Unit, Central Manchester Women’s Aid,
Glasgow Women’s Library, Scottish Equality Network, Stonewall Cymru and Devon
and Cornwall Police.
Supported
by Brighton University , B&H DV Forum, LGBT DV and Abuse Working Group and
Broken Rainbow. Broken Rainbow are a registered charity: 1103624