Class Agenda from October 29

Hello again! Yes, I'm still playing catch-up on posting about all the wonderful things going on both inside and outside of our class. As you may recall, we had a guest panel conversation on practices, challenges, and opportunities in macro social work practice with LGBTQ persons. Our guest panel consisted of:

• Joey Honeycutt (Crisis Response Coordinator, Orange County Rape Crisis Center) 
• Dr. Liz Canfield (Assistant Professor at Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at VCU, and Queer Action Faculty Advisor)
• Beth Panilaitis (Executive Director, ROSMY)
• Dr. Alex Wagaman (Asssistant Professor at VCU School of Social Work)

I will be sending out contact information via Blackboard for these wonderful guest speakers in the event that you wish to follow up with any of them. The interview paper assignment was due November 5th, so I'll be looking forward to reading your papers this week!

Our assigned supplemental readings were:

• Natale, A. P., & Miller-Cribbs, J. E. (2012). Same-sex marriage policy: Advancing social, political, and economic justice. Journal of GLBT Family Studies, 8, 155-172, doi: 10.1080/1550428X.2012.660786
• Smith, J. D. (1998). Working with larger systems. Journal of Gay & Lesbian Social Services, 7:3, 13-21, DOI: 10.1300/J041v07n03_02
• Optional: Hart, P. (2011-2012). Absence and uncertainty: LGBT families in federally funded healthy relationship programs. LGBTQ Policy Journal at the Harvard Kennedy School, 2, 83-95.

Twitter feed

Also, don't forget to check out tweets from our Twitter account and hashtag! There you can find tweets from students and me (the instructor) where we share information about LGBTQ issues with each other and with the greater social work twitter world. Account: @LGBTQsocialwork hashtag: #LGBTQsocialwork Tweets about "#LGBTQsocialwork"

Workshop - Building an Intersectional LGBTQ Movement w/ SONG

Hey all! Just a quick follow up from an e-mail announcement I sent out a couple weeks ago... (yes, I'm playing the catch-up game on this blog. Sorry about the delay!). The workshop hosted by Southerners On New Ground (SONG) was a fantastic community-building exercise and created some great dialogue among LGBTQ movers and shakers here in Richmond.

The workshop gave both an example of exercises to use in your own movement building efforts, but also a space to dialogue about issues related to intersectionality within the LGBTQ movement in Richmond.

Additionally, Suzanne Pharr, author of the classic text, Homophobia: A Weapon of Sexism, and co-founder of SONG, was there to educate us about intersectionality. I got the best picture of her in action:

Go to SONG's website to learn more about their organization, and how you can get involved! www.southernersonnewground.org.

Class Agenda for October 22

Greetings!

This week's class has a lot to look forward to! We have guest speaker Chris Carson from Cypress Counseling, and she will be discussing her work with LGBTQ clients and best practices on clinical work with this population. We also have case presentations for case #2 and case #17. Also, don't forget about this week's readings, which are: 

•  M&M chpt 7.
• Case studies: #2, #17.
• Supplemental readings: Crosbie-Burnett, Foster, Murray, & Bowen (1996), Lesser (1999), Ausbrooks & Russell (2011).
• Optional supplemental readings: Gonzalez et al. (2012), LaSala (2000), Lease & Shulman (2003).

All supplemental readings are available on our course Blackboard site.

Thanks, see you tomorrow!

-Megan

Links from last class

Hello again!
Here are links for the film we saw on October 15 about Chloe Prince and her family's experience during her transition from male to female.

http://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/MindMoodNews/story?id=8126749
http://www.youtube.com/user/TheGreatPrinkOne?feature=watch

October is LGBT History Month

Hello class!
To celebrate LGBT History Month, I want to turn your attention to a unique book about the gay and lesbian history of our fair town, Richmond. This book chronicles some interesting and little known facts about the active and productive work of our LGBT predecessors in Richmond. It is available at our library, or you can also find it online for purchase.

Title: Lesbian and Gay Richmond. Authors: Beth Marschak and Alex Lorch. Publisher: Arcadia Publications. Year: 2008.

Here is a link for more information: http://books.google.com/books/about/Lesbian_and_Gay_Richmond.html

Class agenda for October 8

 Hi class!

We will be meeting in the new building for class tomorrow so that we have more room for an in-class activity I have planned. The location is ALC 3201, which is the clinical classroom on the third floor (our social work floor). We will meet at the regular class time.

Also, please bring your case studies books to class as you will need it for our in-class activity.

Thanks! Let me know if you have any questions.

-Megan