The Robert Quartermain Centre for SOGI-Inclusive Excellence in Education is pleased to launch its Transformative Education Speaker Series with a talk by Dr. Qui Alexander (they/them), a queer, trans, Black Puerto Rican scholar, educator, and organizer based in Tkaronto.
In this talk, Abolition, Black Trans Life and the Carceral Logics of Education, Dr. Alexander will explore how schools reproduce systems of surveillance, punishment, and control, and consider how education can instead be a practice of freedom.
Dr. Alexander is an Assistant Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Trans Studies in Curriculum and Pedagogy at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. Their teaching and scholarship center on Black trans studies, abolition and transformative justice, and education beyond formal school contexts. Grounded in the belief that education must center transformation and healing, they bring this vision into every educational space they have the honour to hold and co-create.
Date
Monday, October 6, 2025
Time
6:00 to 7:30 pm PDT
Location
Scarfe 310
Questions
Please contact naheed.jadavji@ubc.ca.
