2SLGBQTIA+ Communities of Resilience

3 credits · Undergraduate

This course unpacks the historical and contemporary lives of Two-Spirit, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, and Asexual (2SLGBTQIA+) persons and communities relative to the profession of social work. The impacts of heteronormativity, homo-erasure, liberalism, colonization and medicalization are examined. Drawing from first-voice evidence-based analyses, the course explores how these constructs manifested and how the profession of social work developed from these bases. The course is situated within the resilience of the communities to change current conditions.