Honouring your whole self – indigenous teachings for climate action, transformation and wellness

Presented by Faculty of Health Sciences, Daqualama, Jocelyn Joe-Strack, will give a speech this coming Thursday.

Centering Two-Spirit and Indigenous experiences and ways is critical for more respectful, reciprocal, relevant, and responsible health research. Two-Spirit is often equated to an LGBTQ Indigenous participant; thereby, rendering this community’s unique experience and history invisible and erasing important distinctions. When done, this type of scholarship may be a site of colonization.

The challenge is how to collect Two-Spirit data that in culturally safe and affirming ways, so health research(ers) are given the opportunity to do rigorous sex-and-gender-based analysis that promotes science that considers biological sex and accounts for all genders in an effort to expand our collective understanding(s) within a diversity framework.

This presentation examines some decolonizing practices to better formulate health research, policies and programs that are relevant, respectful and mindful to Two-Spirit peoples and communities, so research is reconcilia(c)tion (reconciliation and action).

This presentation will be in person at Simon Fraser University and recorded over Zoom.