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Dark Secrets is part of a research project being led by the UBC School of Social Work that focuses on student to student abuse in Canada's Residential School System. The play shares acts of kindness and acts of resistance associated with the collected narratives of Residential School…
Simangele Mabena will share a work-in-progress based on the exploration of D/deaf and hearing teachers’ roles and pedagogy in teaching South African Sign Language using RbT, while navigating her role as a researcher. Session Chair: Susan Cox.
Don’t Rock the Boat began as a live theatre workshop focusing on wellbeing issues that arise within the context of graduate student supervisory relationships. In early 2020, we began a new phase of the work that involved a brand new script that brought greater emphasis to issues of equity,…