Serving City of Kawartha Lakes, Haliburton, Northumberland and Peterborough Counties.

1. Serving City of Kawartha Lakes, Haliburton, Northumberland and Peterborough Counties.

2. Shifting OUTlook: Fleming College Promotes Safe and Inclusive Spaces Positive Space

3. Listen to each other • Ask for clarification • Balance participation • Challenge respectfully • Honour confidentiality • Speak from our own perspective • Ask questions!! Ground Rules

4. PARN has a 20 year history of serving Peterborough and the Four Counties • PARN’s work is based on the social determinants of health, the principles of Harm Reduction and anti-oppression. • The goal is to meet people where they are, nurture resilience, and build on existing assets. Why PARN?

5. Our work in HIV has meant becoming experts on marginalization and factors that put people at risk. • These include, poverty, homophobia, homonegativity, HIV/AIDS-phobia, gender, gender identity, and gender inequality, sexual health, women’s rights, youth issues, addictions, heterosexism and so on. • Prejudice and discrimination continue to fuel the spread of HIV. Why PARN? con’t

6. Reduce stereotyping and it’s negative impacts. • Foster shifts that enhance existing school culture to improve learning, safety and a sense of belonging. • Build on good work already being done. Why are you here?

7. From the preamble to Bill 13: The people of Ontario and the Legislative Assembly: • Believe that a healthy, safe and inclusive learning environment where all students feel accepted is a necessary condition for student success; • Understand that students cannot be expected to reach their full potential in an environment where they feel insecure or intimidated; • Believe that students need to be equipped with the knowledge, skills, attitude and values to engage the world and others ……..

8. Reteaching Gender http://youtu.be/51kQQuVpKxQ

9. Cultural Competence suggests that ethnicity, race, colour, & language are only a few aspects of culture. • We are all different, each with a unique identity and personal culture • This means that we have a specific lens through which we view and assess the world, leading to assumptions based on prejudice. What’s your lens?

10. Cultural competence is not about eliminating prejudice, rather acquiring the knowledge, tools and skills to bridge difference. • Different than the tolerance model, it emphasizes the importance of self-awareness in knowing & understanding others, making space to unpack our discomfort, not bury it.

11. Addressing the attitudes, values and beliefs that drive behaviour. Social Determinants of Health

12. “There is evidence that gay, lesbian, and transgender Canadians experience discrimination that leads to stress that has adverse health effects. This is especially a problem during adolescence when gay & lesbian youth need to come to terms with their self identity.” - Social Determinants of Health, The Canadian Facts. J. Mikkonen, D. Raphael. 2010

13. Heterosexism • Homophobia • Homonegativity • Transphobia • Misogyny • Cisgender Glossary of terms

14. Stereotyping is a thought or idea. • Prejudice is a feeling. • Homophobia or Racism is an action. Put another way: • Stereotyping is the way an individual thinks. • Prejudice is the way individuals behave. • Discrimination (Homophobia) is systemic.

15. Understanding the influence of media and marketing.

16. Impact of Social Media

17. Biological Sex • Gender Identity • Sexual Orientation • Sexual Behaviour Sexual Identities

20. Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transsexual Transgender Intersex Queer Questioning 2-Spirit Allies L,G,B,T,T,I,Q,Q,2-S,A

21. Homophobia/ Transphobia is like racism and anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry in that it seeks to dehumanize a large group of people, to deny their humanity, their dignity and personhood. - Coretta Scott King

22. Victims and persons accused of police-reported hate crimes, by age group, Statisitcs Canada, 2010. Among the provinces, the highest rate of hate crime was reported in Ontario. Peterborough 4th highest in the province.

23. Hate crimes motivated by sexual orientation often result in physical injury Findings from previous years indicate that hate crimes targeting sexual orientation, specifically homosexuality, are more likely than other types of hate crime to be violent. This trend was also seen in 2010, as almost two-thirds (65%) of hate crimes motivated by sexual orientation were violent. In comparison, 34% of racially motivated hate crimes and 17% of religiously motivated hate crimes were violent. Hate crimes motivated by sexual orientation were also more likely than other types to result in physical injury to victims.

24. The knowledge, skills, attitude and values to bridge difference are critical to foster a healthy, safe and inclusive learning environment where ALL students feel accepted, creating the necessary conditions for student success. Where students don’t just survive the system, they thrive in it.

25. Caster Semenya; CBC, The Passionate Eye, Dr. Gerard Conway • Ted Talks; Alice Dreger; Is Anatomy Destiny Johanna Blakley; Social Media & the end of Gender • Sex, Lies and Gender (National Geographic) Dr. Tiger Howard Devore • EGALE Canada; Every Class in Every School, national climate survey on homophobia, biphobia, and transphobia in Canadian schools, final report - May 2011 Science and changing knowledge

26. Shifting OUTlook is the first of 3 levels, each level builds on the one before; • Level 2: Being an LGBTQ Ally (insignia) • Level 3: Train the trainer (certificate) • Join a student club; • Frost Gay Straight Alliance • gsa@flemingc.on.ca • Fleming Association of Queer Students • faqs@flemingc.on.ca Next Steps

27. If you have any comments or questions: Debbie Harrison, Fleming Diversity Office, debharri@flemingc.on.caor 705-749-5520 x1179 Peter Williams or anya gwynne at PARN 705-749-9110 peter@parn.caanya@parn.ca Thank you