- Location
- Zoom Seminar
- Series/Type
- Alumni Event, DLSPH Event, Faculty/Staff Event, Student Event
- Format
- Online
- Dates
- May 14, 2026 from 1:00pm to 2:30pm
Links
Presented by the 2S/LGBTQ+ Health Hub …
The 2S/LGBTQ+ Health Hub Lecture Series presents: Digital Storytelling with Jami Mcfarland (University of Guelph).
Join us for a 90-minute screening and discussion featuring nine powerful digital stories (6-9 minutes each) co-created by 2SLGBTQ+ older adults aging with and into difference(s), including disability, illness, fatness, Indigeneity, and racialization.
Developed through a SSHRC-funded study led by Dr. Jami McFarland, this work brings together an intergenerational collective of 2SLGBTQ+ community members and researchers from across Ontario and beyond, in collaboration with artist-facilitations from Re-Vision: The Centre for Art and Social Justice. Using a multimedia storytelling approach, we crafted deeply personal and political narratives through voice, image, and sound.
The films explore a wide range of experiences, including gender-affirming care in later life, queer widowhood and bereavement, aging activisms, gender-based violence, spirituality, and the importance of communities and spaces of belonging in later life. Together, this series challenges dominant narratives that narrowly frame queerness as youthful, embodied difference as deficit or dependence, and aging as decline.
Following the screening, audience members are invited to stay for a Q&A with 2SLGBTQ+ E/elders who co-created the films. This conversation will create space for reflection and connection across generations and communities.
This event centres aging stories that are too often marginalized in queer communities, and queer stories that are often overlooked in the delivery of age-based services. We invite attendees to engage with the complexities of 2SLGBTQ+ aging while considering the structural conditions that shape these experiences. We also highlight digital storytelling as a decolonial, feminist, and queer practice that shares knowledge, fosters relations of responsibility, and invites audience members to imagine more just, liveable futures for 2SLGBTQ+ communities.
The 2S/LGBTQ+ Health Hub is a CIHR funded health research training platform.
