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Kim Snider
@kimberleyblue.bsky.social
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Toronto teacher in Aotearoa | PhD Student, Waipapa Taumata Rau UoA | Consumed by all things gender, sexuality, zine & arts-related | She/They
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Kim Snider @kimberleyblue.bsky.social · Nov 18
Hey y'all! Happy to get connected here with folks in gender & sexuality/queer/arts ed research spaces 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

My PhD research focuses on young people's experiences of queer/trans joy and challenge at school, and how the arts might help us better understand them.

Pleased to make your acquaintance!
kimberleyblue.bsky.social
Happening tomorrow!

#EdSky #QueerEd #QueerEducation #LGBTQIA #ArtsEd #QueerResearch #QueerJoy
kimberleyblue.bsky.social Kim Snider @kimberleyblue.bsky.social · May 18
I’m very excited to be doing a virtual keynote for USQ on my PhD research! This talk will focus on queer and critical arts based pedagogies and how they might be used in teaching & research contexts. Hope to see you there!

Thursday, 29 May 2025
9-10am AEST

unisq.zoom.us/j/8139925135...
Arts-based and queer pedagogies have much to offer educators and researchers interested in interdisciplinary approaches to working with young people. In this keynote presentation, I draw from my doctoral research, which used critical arts-based research to explore students’ experiences of queer joy and challenge at school. Critical arts-based research (Finley et al, 2014) draws from critical pedagogy and applied theatre; it also shares characteristics with queer theory and aesthetics. I argue that these qualities give it the potential to “queer” traditional research practices (Fields et al, 2014) and enrich diverse fields of study with cross-disciplinary knowledge. In this presentation, I share examples of queer methods used in my study, which helped students embody their subjugated experiences, challenge the status quo, and imagine their school differently. I argue that these methods enacted a “pedagogy of utopia” (Busby, 2021) with moments of “disorientation” (Ahmed, 2006) that were both troubling and transformative. This pedagogical approach helped foster an environment of joyful subversion and collective agency in participants, while generating insights into their joys and challenges at school. The study’s methodological findings offer new “orientations” for educators interested in issues of social justice, as well as scholars looking to adopt artful methods into their research. . Date: May 29th 2025, 9-10am AEST Zoom link: https://unisq.zoom.us/j/81399251357?from=addon
May 28, 2025 at 2:17 AM
kimberleyblue.bsky.social
I’m very excited to be doing a virtual keynote for USQ on my PhD research! This talk will focus on queer and critical arts based pedagogies and how they might be used in teaching & research contexts. Hope to see you there!

Thursday, 29 May 2025
9-10am AEST

unisq.zoom.us/j/8139925135...
Arts-based and queer pedagogies have much to offer educators and researchers interested in interdisciplinary approaches to working with young people. In this keynote presentation, I draw from my doctoral research, which used critical arts-based research to explore students’ experiences of queer joy and challenge at school. Critical arts-based research (Finley et al, 2014) draws from critical pedagogy and applied theatre; it also shares characteristics with queer theory and aesthetics. I argue that these qualities give it the potential to “queer” traditional research practices (Fields et al, 2014) and enrich diverse fields of study with cross-disciplinary knowledge. In this presentation, I share examples of queer methods used in my study, which helped students embody their subjugated experiences, challenge the status quo, and imagine their school differently. I argue that these methods enacted a “pedagogy of utopia” (Busby, 2021) with moments of “disorientation” (Ahmed, 2006) that were both troubling and transformative. This pedagogical approach helped foster an environment of joyful subversion and collective agency in participants, while generating insights into their joys and challenges at school. The study’s methodological findings offer new “orientations” for educators interested in issues of social justice, as well as scholars looking to adopt artful methods into their research. . Date: May 29th 2025, 9-10am AEST Zoom link: https://unisq.zoom.us/j/81399251357?from=addon
May 18, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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sssharc.bsky.social
With the last Hunt-Simes Institute in Sexuality Studies three weeks away, we’d like to introduce our fantastic cohort! First up, Kim Snider @kimberleyblue.bsky.social from the University of Auckland.
Kim is excited to (re)imagine what a queer school might look like with other participants!
#HISS2025
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January 29, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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jelenawoehr.bsky.social
harm reduction tool if you can’t leave Meta products while continuing to meet your own basic needs: bsky.app/profile/jele...
jelenawoehr.bsky.social Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · Jan 10
News Feed Eradicator allows you to keep using Facebook for things like emergency evacuation coordination groups (a main reason i still use it) without seeing the news feed and thus without providing Meta any revenue.

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January 20, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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sbearbergman.bsky.social
Gifts for teachers:
- a 30 second dance party button
- gift card for something practical like Instacart or DoorDash
- a note about something specific you/your kid likes about them/their class
- not a mug
- no for real, not a mug.
December 16, 2024 at 5:58 AM
kimberleyblue.bsky.social
Same for the Cdn healthcare system!
gbbranstetter.bsky.social Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · Dec 12
Amid this reckoning over the inhumanity and dysfunction of the American health care system keep in mind you're being asked to believe the same system is treating trans people *too* efficiently
December 12, 2024 at 8:05 PM
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raeloverde.bsky.social
The fact that writers can use various combinations of 26 letters to make me care about people who never existed and then destroy me emotionally by making them suffer is the weirdest, most unfair, and wonderful of magics
November 27, 2024 at 2:08 AM
kimberleyblue.bsky.social
My school has the best librarian in Toronto— give her a follow!
bookpedaler.bsky.social Pamela Roberts @bookpedaler.bsky.social · Nov 22
A little late, but I’m new here, so here’s my display and collection of TransLit for Transgender Day of Remembrance on November 20th. If you don’t absolutely love this, you probably shouldn’t follow this account!
November 22, 2024 at 2:37 AM
kimberleyblue.bsky.social
Hey y'all! Happy to get connected here with folks in gender & sexuality/queer/arts ed research spaces 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

My PhD research focuses on young people's experiences of queer/trans joy and challenge at school, and how the arts might help us better understand them.

Pleased to make your acquaintance!
November 18, 2024 at 6:11 AM
kimberleyblue.bsky.social
Hey y'all! Happy to get connected here with folks in gender & sexuality/queer/arts ed research spaces 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

My PhD research focuses on young people's experiences of queer/trans joy and challenge at school, and how the arts might help us better understand them.

Pleased to make your acquaintance!
November 18, 2024 at 6:11 AM