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Spanning borders from Colombia to Canada, Germany to England, a grandmother and her granddaughter, both survivors of state violence, search for family and a place to call home. A novel for anyone who has ever left “home,” has experienced belonging in different communities, or simply has an interest for what makes a “home” for us and our loved ones.

Narrator: Playwright Tara Goldstein Director: Jenny Salisbury Cheslea Goodwin: Savannah Burton Sylvia Rivera: Rosalind Goodwin Musician, singer: Kael Reid Our Funders Social Science and Humanities Research Council Connections Grant Jackman Humanities Institute Arts Program Grant, University of Toronto New College Initiatives Fund, University of Toronto

Writing contributions from Jenny Salisbury, Alec Butler Narrator: Playwright Tara Goldstein Director: Jenny Salisbury Chrystos: Alec Butler Leanne Simpson: Nicole-Joy Fraser Drummers: Alec Butler, Don Kerr Musician: Kael Reid Our Funders Social Science and Humanities Research Council Connections Grant Jackman Humanities Institute Arts Program Grant, University of Toronto New College Initiatives Fu...

Narrator: Playwright Tara Goldstein Director: Jenny Salisbury Audre Lorde: Sashoya Simpson Barbara Smith: Sierra Haynes Musician, singer: Kael Reid Our Funders Social Science and Humanities Research Council Connections Grant Jackman Humanities Institute Arts Program Grant, University of Toronto New College Initiatives Fund, University of Toronto

Narrator: Playwright Tara Goldstein Director: Jenny Salisbury Musician, singer: Kael Reid Barbara Gittings:  Moynan King Our Funders Social Science and Humanities Research Council Connections Grant Jackman Humanities Institute Arts Program Grant, University of Toronto New College Initiatives Fund, University of Toronto

Narrator: Playwright Tara Goldstein Director: Jenny Salisbury Beverley Rotter: Beth Anne Cole Iris De La Cruz: Neta Rose Musician, singer: Kael Reid Our Funders Social Science and Humanities Research Council Connections Grant Jackman Humanities Institute Arts Program Grant, University of Toronto New College Initiatives Fund, University of Toronto

Narrator: Playwright Tara Goldstein Director: Jenny Salisbury Shirley Chisholm: Lashae Watson The Advance Men: Ryan Singh, Ty Walkland Musician, singer: Kael Reid Our Funders Social Science and Humanities Research Council Connections Grant Jackman Humanities Institute Arts Program Grant, University of Toronto New College Initiatives Fund, University of Toronto

Narrator: Playwright Tara Goldstein Director: Jenny Salisbury Barbara Gittings: Moynan King Kay Tobin Lahusen: Mary Ellen MacLean Dr. Anonymous: Ty Walkland Musician, singer: Kael Reid Our Funders Social Science and Humanities Research Council Connections Grant Jackman Humanities Institute Arts Program Grant, University of Toronto New College Initiatives Fund, University of Toronto

Narrator: Playwright Tara Goldstein Director: Jenny Salisbury Musician: Kael Reid Our Funders Social Science and Humanities Research Council Connections Grant Jackman Humanities Institute Arts Program Grant, University of Toronto New College Initiatives Fund, University of Toronto

Our next project, The Love Booth and Other Plays is a set of seven short plays that share stories of queer lives and queer activism and care in the 1970s and early 1980s.  The title play The Love Booth tells the story of how a group of lesbian and gay activists pushed the American Psychology Association to take homosexuality off its Diagnostic Statistical Manual in 1973 so that homosexuality was n...

Part 1 of Out at School begins with a scene called “We Still Have to Fight” which introduces one of the major themes of the play:  LGBTQ parents and students have to fight and advocate to make sure their families are recognized and legitimized at school.  Part 1 ends with Kate Reid’s song Pushing the Envelope which speaks to the ways LGBTQ parents and students have to explain their families and re...

Part 2 of Out at School features two scenes that discuss the ways Mother’s Day and Father’s Day are celebrated in schools.  It ends with Kate Reid’s song Let Love Be The Way which continues Kate’s reflection on the ways LGBTQ parents and students need to explain themselves at school.  In the song, Kate talks about how LGBTQ families often need to justify their identities, bodies, and pronouns at s...

Part 3 of Out at School ends with a scene called “Risk Hope” summarizing another key theme of the play. Although they currently have to fight and advocate to make sure their families are recognized at school, LGBTQ parents and students still maintain hope that schools are capable of change and that one day they won’t need to be pushing the envelope.    Part 3 ends with Kate Reid’s song Risk Hope w...

Goldstein, Tara and Audarson Gudmundson, Helgi. (Producers). (2018, October 17). Welcome to Gender. Sexuality. School.

Goldstein, Tara and Audarson Gudmundson, Helgi. (Producers). (2018, October 17).  ​Tara interviews Lee Airton from Queen’s University about their new book Gender Your Guide:  What to Say, What to Know and What to Do in the New Gender Culture.

Goldstein, Tara and Audarson Gudmundson, Helgi. (Producers). (2018, November 1). Tara interviews musician and research team member Kate Reid about her research on queering high school curriculum through music.

Goldstein, Tara and Audarson Gudmundson, Helgi. (Producers). (2018, December 1). Tara interviews the team behind the documentary film Gender is Like an Ocean about their work on teaching middle school students about gender with the novel Beautiful Music for Ugly Children written by Kirstin Cronn-Mills in 2012. 

Goldstein, Tara and Audarson Gudmundson, Helgi. (Producers). (2019, January 1).  Tara shares one of the letters from her new book Teaching Gender and Sexuality at School:  Letters to Teachers.

Goldstein, Tara and Audarson Gudmundson, Helgi  (Producers).  (2019, February 1). Tara talks to colleagues Tania Ferfolja and Jackie Ullman about their Australian research about parents’ views on gender and sexuality education.

Goldstein, Tara and Friesen, Doug (Producers).  (2019, March 6). Tara talks to team member Pam Baer about her applied theatre research with young people living in LGBTQ families.

Goldstein, Tara and Friesen, Doug (Producers).  (2019, April 1). Tara talks to LGBTQ Families Speak Out team member Kate Reid about the music she composed for the project’s verbatim theatre piece Out at School.  

Goldstein, Tara and Friesen, Doug (Producers).  (2019, May 1). Tara talks to LGBTQ Families Speak Out team member benjamin lee hicks about the illustrations they composed for the project’s verbatim theatre piece Out at School. 

Goldstein, Tara and Friesen, Doug (Producers).  (2019, June 1). Tara talks to LGBTQ Families Speak Out team member Yasmin Owis​ about her research on ways to queer sex education so that it represents the lives of LGBTQ students.

Goldstein, Tara and Friesen, Doug (Producers).  (2019, Oct 1).  ​ Tara talks to j wallace skelton about j’s work with OISE’s teacher discussion group Queer and Trans Space and the discussions teachers are having about implementing the 2019 sex ed curriculum in their classrooms.

Goldstein, Tara and Friesen, Doug (Producers).  (2019, Nov 1). Tara talks to Lee Airton about their work with QSEC, a Special Interest Group within the Canadian Society for the Study of Education.