INQ-300 | LGBTQ Issues

Full Title: LGBTQ Storytelling

Topic Description:

If there is one thing people have trouble talking about in public, it is sex. Sex is considered taboo, risqué, or just plain awkward. But if we talk more openly and candidly about sex and sexuality in public, we just might create a safer and more celebratory world for people of all gender identities, sexual orientations, and relationship styles. This is the contemporary issue that we tackle in “LGBTQ Storytelling”: how to craft engaging and effective narratives about gender, sex, and our bodies. This type of storytelling will involve research and data analysis in the health sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Students will work in groups, and partner with LGBTQ, reproductive health, and sexual health organizations in the Roanoke Valley to research and disseminate narratives about sex and sexuality. Students will also conduct oral histories with elders in the local LGBTQ community. Final presentations will include an oral defense as well as the production of a deliverable to share with partnering community organizations.

Counts as Global? No

Topic Approved: October 2015