This exhibit emerges from a national photovoice project titled Queering Schools/Faculties of Social Work in Canada, conducted across four sites: UBC, York University, Université Laval, and the University of Regina. Through photography and collective dialogue, 2S/LGBTQI+ social work students shared their lived experiences navigating educational spaces in social work that are often positioned as sites of social justice, yet remain entangled in systems of exclusion and harm.
As a participatory method, photovoice, invited social work students to document their realities through images and capture moments of struggle, resistance, care, joy and possibility. These photographs are acts of witnessing, storytelling, and transformation. Across sites, participants revealed a shared tension between inclusion and invisibility, institutional harm and queer survival and between what social work claims to be and what it actually does. At the same time, these images illuminate on queer joy, kinship and radical dreaming. This exhibit is an invitation to reflect on the meaning and possibility of queering social work.
- Principal Investigator: Antoine Coulombe
- Co-Investigators: Hannah Kia, Kévin Lavoie, Nick Mulé, Fritz Pino
- Research Coordinator: Daniel Gallardo Zamora
- Research Assistants: Andrew P. Raya, Isabelle Palin, Eliott F. Léger
This study was supported by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Insight Development Grant program.