This webinar will share findings and takeaways from Investigaytors and Knowledge 2eekerS, our community-based research learning programs focused on mental health. Regional Investigaytors delivery sites will showcase the diverse ways in which their programs are developing and delivering health promotion interventions. The Knowledge 2eekerS program will discuss how Two-Spirit perspectives and stories have guided the development of the program, and how the program has encouraged participants to see research as an opportunity to assume and return to roles that contribute to the collective benefit of their communities.
Live simultaneous interpretation will be provided in English and French.
Speakers
Lane Bonertz (he/him), Knowledge 2eekerS
Lane Bonertz is the Two-Spirit Program Lead at the Community-Based Research Centre. He is queer, Blackfoot and a Piikani Nation member, and it is within these intersecting identities that he feels a sense of responsibility to contribute to care and research that is decolonial and affirming of identity and lived experience. Lane is currently developing and facilitating Knowledge 2eekerS, a Two-Spirit research learning initiative as part of the MH-COVID grant.
Noé Préfontaine (they/them), Village Lab
Noé is a white, queer Métis person from the Red River Valley, with generations of ancestral roots on this land. They currently work as the research coordinator and instructor within Winnipeg’s Investigaytors program, learning alongside other 2S/LGBTQIA+ folks actively involved in questioning and queering “research” as we experience it.
Laurie Fournier (she/her), Qollab
Laurie Fournier is co-coordinator of Jeunes Chercheur·es queers at Qollab (in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal) and a butch lesbian academic interested in lesbian identities and communities, 2S/LGBTQIA+ health as well as policies meant to protect 2S/LGBTQIA+ people from violence and discrimination. In her free time, she is busy being neurodivergent and overthinking stuff, doing silly butch things and protesting in the streets.
Amy Rhanim (they/them), Qollab
Amy works for Qollab as a research agent and coordinator of the Investigaytors/Jeunes Chercheur.e.s Queers program. They’re also Master’s student in political science. Their work focuses on lesbians in pop culture and media representations. In their free time, Amy loves to cook vegan dishes.
