Workshops
Peer Education Workshops
Peer Education Workshop Request Form
The Pride Reps, the Gender and Sexuality Center's peer educators, have created several workshops in order to better educate the Brandeis community on topics related to LGBTQIA2S+ identities. Each workshop is approximately 45 minutes to 1 hour long and is facilitated by the GSC's trained staff. All of our Pride Reps and Graduate Assistants have completed NASPA's Certified Peer Educator Training Program.
These learning experiences are meant to introduce participants to new information and healthy, respectful behaviors. Our workshops are not a substitute for the in depth learning that can be gained from a University course or intensive training, but rather they provide an initial foundation from which one can engage further on a specific topic.
We are happy to serve and accommodate any Brandeis audience with at least 2 weeks notice. In our request form below, we ask who the primary audience will be: undergraduate students, graduate students, or University employees. Depending on the selection, appropriate facilitators will be selected (ex. GSC Graduate Assistants for a primarily graduate student audience). Groups larger than 35 people will need to be broken into two or more smaller sessions, which can be accommodated with enough notice. All of our workshops require a screen and audio capabilities for the visual presentations.
At this time, the GSC is unable to accommodate customized workshops. We will continue to add additional workshops until we have our desired portfolio. Questions regarding the GSC's workshops can be directed to gsc@brandeis.edu.
To request a workshop, please fill out the GSC workshop request form.
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Introduction to LGBTQ+ Allyship
In this workshop, participants will be introduced to LGBTQ+ identities and topics. The primary focus of this learning experience is exploring respectful and health behaviors for allies. This is a great place to start if the attendees have little to no background knowledge about the LGBTQ+ community.
Learning Goals
Participants will be able to:
- Explain the difference between sexuality, gender identity, and gender expression
- Discuss ways on how to support the queer community
- Understand bystander intervention
- Understand pronouns/sharing pronouns
- Explain homophobia and how it influences behavior
- Understand the importance of allyship and how to campaign for positive change
- Discuss aspects of labor expectations and dynamics of labor between queer and non-queer people
Introduction to the Gender Identity Spectrum
In this workshop, participants will be introduced to the Gender Identity Spectrum and will learn about gender expansive identities (transgender, non-binary, gender queer, agender, etc). This educational experience is great for attendees who have some background knowledge about the LGBTQ+ community but want to learn more about gender identity.
Learning Goals
- Discuss the gender identity spectrum and its importance
- Understand the differences between sex, gender, and gender expression
- Understand the different terms related to gender identity
- Have knowledge of gender markers, their origin, and their purpose
- Discuss gender roles and expectations
- Discuss trans presentation
Exploring LGBTQ+ Intersectionality
In this workshop, participants will be introduced to the many ways that LGBTQ+ identities intersect with other identities and how to use the analytical tool of intersectionality.
Participants will be able to:
- Understand gender and race in conjunction with queerness
- Explain the origins of intersectionality
- Know how to decenter whiteness in queer spaces
- Discuss how queer culture and language are or are not transferred across different cultures of queerness
- Understand how socioeconomic status influences queerness
- Understand misogynoir
- Understand how power builds/detracts and interacts through different identities
The Historical Study of Queerness
In this workshop, participants will learn about the history of what we now consider to be queerness and LGBTQ+ identities.
Participants will be able to:
- Understand queer history specifically in underrepresented groups
- Explain how colonialism impacted the time it took some cultures to accept queerness
- Acknowledge how different cultures have their history of queerness
- Discuss how pinkwashing has created divides
- Know of different queer scholars and researchers
- Discuss the importance of knowing queer history in the status quo
- Understand key queer people in queer historical studies
- Understand how queer relationships may have looked in the past
- Discuss how queerness became an identity as opposed to an activity
- Understand the ethics of outing historical figures after they’re dead
- Explain the development of language to discuss/explain queerness