- Location
- Zoom
- Series/Type
- Alumni Event, DLSPH Event, Faculty/Staff Event, Student Event
- Format
- Online
- Dates
- April 16, 2026 from 1:00pm to 2:00pm
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Presented by the 2S/LGBTQ+ Health Hub …
The 2S/LGBTQ+ Health Hub lecture series presents: Stonecutters and Pollinators: Indigenous Neurodiversity Beyond Colonial Medicine with Milo Ira (Simon Fraser University).
This lecture brings together critical neurodiversity theory and Indigenous ways of knowing to challenge colonial healthcare systems that pathologize neurodifference. Drawing on the UnACoRN survey of Two-Spirit, neurodivergent, and gender-diverse Indigenous youth, Milo contrasts the colonial “stonecutter” model, which carves away difference, with the Indigenous “pollinator” approach rooted in Potawatomi and Cree teachings on relationality and kinship. Like nocturnal pollinators moving unseen yet vital relationships forward, neurodivergent youth navigate the world in ways dominant systems fail to recognize yet remain essential to collective flourishing. Milo’s work reimagines neurodivergent-affirming healthcare as rooted in relational accountability, where neurodivergence is understood as interdependence rather than deviation.
The 2S/LGBTQ+ Health Hub is a CIHR funded health research training platform.