What role should education, and the education system, play in queer liberation? We conclude this year’s LGBT+ History Month with a Q&A discussion, exploring both the historical role of the education system in the experience of sexuality and gender minorities, and a future perspective on the role that education can play in achieving equality. Our panel of Shon Faye, Sarah Franklin and Duncan Astle will be fielding your questions and discussing the role of education in queer liberation.
We would like to gather as many questions in advance as possible, so that we can organise our discussion. If you have a question for a panel then please send it to equality@admin.cam.ac.uk
Shon Faye is a writer from Bristol and one of the UK’s leading commentators on trans politics. After training as a lawyer, she left the law to pursue writing and campaigning, working in the charity sector with Amnesty International and Stonewall. She was an editor-at-large at Dazed, and her writing has been published by the Guardian, the Independent and Vice, among others. Faye also hosts the acclaimed podcast series, Call Me Mother, interviewing trailblazing LGBTQ elders. Her first book, The Transgender Issue, was published by Penguin Press in 2021 and was an instant Sunday Times bestseller.
Sarah Franklin is a Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator and the Chair of Sociology at the University of Cambridge where she directs the Reproductive Sociology Research Group (ReproSoc). She is also the Director of LGBTQ+@Cam, a programme launched by the School of Humanities and Social Sciences in 2018 to promote research, outreach and network building related to queer, trans and sexuality studies at the University of Cambridge.
Duncan Astle is an MRC Programme Leader at the Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, studying child and adolescent development. He is also Director of Studies and a Fellow at Robinson College, and Chair of the University’s LGBT+ Staff Network.
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