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Stickers for Liberatory Parents and Carers

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Venue: Birkbeck 43 Gordon Square

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A talk by Shama Khanna and a participatory event where kids and their parents and/or carers can use stickers to play with gender stereotypes in children’s books: from characters' pronouns to the way they are dressed. In-person.

A recent study found that using gender neutral pronouns reduces mental biases that favour men and increases positive attitudes towards women and the LGBTQI community. This talk by Shama Khanna and participatory event is an opportunity for kids and their parents and/or carers to use stickers to play with gender stereotypes in children’s books, from characters' pronouns to the way they are dressed. We hope to create space for discussions around the ways gender is used to limit our experience and how we relate to one another from our very first encounters with education, and possible ways we can respond. Please bring along any books you wish to repair or discuss.     

Please also let us know if you intend to bring your child(ren) and if so their ages so we can plan the workshop accordingly. Email Sophie Hope s.hope@bbk.ac.uk
 
The event will be led by Shama Khanna, a BiGS (Birkbeck Gender and Sexuality group) Artist in Association. Khanna directs the long-running platform for artists’ moving image and network culture, Flatness (flatness.eu). A new book, Queer Diasporic Futurity, edited by Flatness is due out in early summer 2022.

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This event takes place in-person at Birkbeck's School of Arts, as part of Arts Week 2022.  https://www.bbk.ac.uk/annual-events/arts-week/arts-week/arts-week-2022

Communication about this event will be sent from messenger@bbk.ac.uk. Do check your Spam/Junk/Other inbox if you are looking for emails from this address.

  
 

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