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June is Pride month in Canada– a time dedicated to celebrating 2SLGBTQIA+ communities and equal rights advocacy. Research and scholarship centering 2SLGBTQIA+ interests, experiences, and perspectives is an important part of ongoing efforts to enhance the visibility and inclusivity of under- or misrepresented communities and contribute to positive change.
Explore these collection highlights in cIRcle to inspire and inform your Pride month celebrations:
The Queer Geography Dictionary is a collaboration of UBC Okanagan’s ‘Queer Geographies’ class (GEOG/GWST 426) to create a “handbook that can guide current and future queer geographers on the evolution and understanding of key terms, ” (Onyx Sloan Morgan and Nassim Zand Dizari, 2025).
First published online in 2007 and given a permanent home in cIRcle in 2023, Homosexuality in the Early Modern World : A Collection of Student-Edited Texts is the result of another collaborative student effort to create a resource that supports ongoing research and scholarship.
Landscape Architecture graduate, Madelaine Snelgrove, combines personal narrative and design research in Home in the Garden : Queery Domesticity and the Provision of Place. A sense of security, place, and possibility is also central to Shannon Srivastava’s Master’s thesis in Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice: To be safe and included : SOGI 1 2 3 and the (re)production of the acceptable queer subject,
The Positive Space Working Group Final Report presents the results of space training workshops delivered to UBC Vancouver Library employees as part of the group’s mandate to “build knowledge and capacity for LGBT2SQIA+ inclusion at UBC Library” (Vining, E. et al, 2018).
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Further Reading
Pride at UBC. List of events, resources, and initiatives. Accessed May 21, 2025.
‘Inclusion should trump exclusion,’ new book reminds 2SLGBTQ+ students the law is on their side. UBC News. Published December 7, 2021. Accessed May 21, 2025.
Learning from queer and trans youth in research. Seminar Series. Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy. Accessed May 21, 2025.