Considering the Possibilities for the Future of Anti-Oppressive Teaching & Learning
The SOGI UBC Transformative Education Speaker Series (TESS) brings together leading scholars and artists working at the nexus of anti-racism, Indigenous education, and gender and sexuality in education to consider the possibilities for the future of anti-oppressive teaching and learning in North America.
Abolition, Black Trans Life and the Carceral Logics of Education
Dr. Qui Alexander, University of Toronto
October 6, 2025
6:00 – 7:30 pm
SCRF 310
Dr. Alexander (they/them) is a queer, trans, Black Puerto Rican scholar, educator and organizer based in Tkaronto. They are an Assistant Professor of Gender, Sexuality and Trans Studies in Curriculum and Pedagogy at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. Their teaching and scholarship centers Black trans studies, abolition & transformative justice, and education outside of formal school contexts. Believing education is a practice of freedom, they aim to center transformation and healing in every educational space they have the honor to hold and co-create.
