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Ways of Proceeding: (En)Visioning LGBTQ Work in a Jesuit Context

Ways of Proceeding: (En)Visioning LGBTQ Work in a Jesuit Context. July 19, 2010 Sivagami Subbaraman, Director Matthew LeBlanc, Program Coordinator. Framing. In Dreams Begins Responsibility Ways of Proceeding. LGBTQ Resource Center—Our Vision.

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Ways of Proceeding: (En)Visioning LGBTQ Work in a Jesuit Context

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  1. Ways of Proceeding:(En)Visioning LGBTQ Work in a Jesuit Context July 19, 2010 Sivagami Subbaraman, Director Matthew LeBlanc, Program Coordinator

  2. Framing • In Dreams Begins Responsibility • Ways of Proceeding

  3. LGBTQ Resource Center—Our Vision We envision Georgetown to be an institution which promotes equity & affords wholeness for its lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning students, staff, faculty, and alumni.

  4. Contexts for LGBTQ work

  5. Contexts of our work

  6. Exigence for the LGBTQ Resource Center • 84% report verbal harassment at school (GLSEN) • 55% of transgender youth report physical attacks based on their gender identity/expression (GLSEN) • 28% of LGBT youth drop out of school due to harassment (GLSEN) • 42% of homeless youth are LGBT (NGLTF) • Mental & Emotional Health • 30% of gay teens considered suicide • 28% made a plan to commit suicide • 32% attempted suicide. • (13, 12, 8 for heterosexual counterparts) (Wash Blade)

  7. Exigence for the LGBTQ Resource Center • Need to create a visibly supportive climate for LGBTQ people • Encourage education about & social interaction among LGBTQ and allied people • Promote proactive affirmation & change on the campus

  8. ProceedingLGBTQ : as center and circle • Nine Jesuit principles: • Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam • Contemplation in Action • Academic Excellence • Educating the Whole Person • “Cura Personalis” • Faith and Justice • Women & Men for Others • Interreligious Understanding • Community in Diversity • Touchstones: • Cura Personalis • Educating the whole person • Excellence • Integration • Social Justice • Paradox as principle • Advocacy & Community Building • “In Dreams Begins Responsibility” • Faith: framework of possibilities

  9. (Re)Framing • “How does it feel to be a problem?” (DuBois) • From a state of woundedness to a place of wholeness

  10. Signposts: Excellence Integration Social Justice Community Building Pathways: Passion/compassion Dialogue Principle of paradox Dancing through the minefields FramingLGBTQ : as center and circle

  11. Excellence • As educational principle • As student success • As intellectual development & emotional intelligence • As critical, Catholic thinking • As diverse understandings of diversity

  12. Integration • “Only to connect” • Institutional & individual levels • Identity is holistic • Being all of who we are

  13. Social Justice • Relation to Jesuit life principles • Educational goal • LGBT as part of social justice

  14. Community Building • Individual & group development • Importance of others • Advocacy is not leadership

  15. Programming:Accomplishments & Challenges • Work with students • Work with Faculty & Staff • Work with Alumni

  16. Working with the LGBTQ Student Organization • The work of the Center • The work of GU Pride • Campus celebrations • Coming Out Week • Pride Week • Gender Liberation Week • Sex Positive Week • Intersections

  17. Orientations & Trainings:Campus-wide partnerships • Stakeholders across campus • Range of pre-orientation, orientation, and leadership programs • The truth in being everywhere • The “diversity corner”: reframing the conversation • The power of unlikely partners • Recruitment, yield, retention, and student success

  18. Institutionalizing LGBTQ Work:Creating Spaces for Conversation Academics The Sacred & The Sexual: Speaker Series Lavender Graduation

  19. Faculty & Staff • Campus Committee • Policies & Benefits • Academic Integration

  20. Alums: Returning Home • John Carroll, Homecoming, Reunion • Alumni Relations • Office of Advancement

  21. Countenancing • There is no other subject on which the average mind is so much confused as the subject of tolerance and intolerance. Tolerance is always supposed to be desirable because it is taken to be synonymous with broadmindedness. Intolerance is always supposed to be undesirable, because it is taken to be synonymous with narrow-mindedness. This is not true, for tolerance and intolerance apply to two totally different things. Tolerance applies only to persons, but never to principles. Intolerance applies only to principles, but never to persons. We must be tolerant to persons because they are human; we must be intolerant about principles because they are divine. [Archbishop Sheen]

  22. (Re)Countenancing

  23. Proceeding from tension and contradiction to paradox and mystery

  24. Thoughts….Questions….

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