Tara Goldstein  
Arts-based ethnographer
Educator
Playwright
Writer

Upcoming Book Publication
Our Children are Your Students:  LGBTQ Families Speak Out
Coming in 2020 from Myers Press.

In this book I explore the strategies and tactics LGBTQ families use to work with schools that don’t anticipate their arrival.  The book features a verbatim theatre script called Out at School which is based on interviews conducted with 37 LGBTQ families about their experiences in school. The book also includes a biographical retrospective of my 20 years of working with LGBTQ youth, teachers and families using themes that are raised by the families in Out at School.
 

Recent Book Publication
Teaching Gender and Sexuality at School: Letters to Teachers
Published in 2019 by Taylor and Francis
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In a set of letters to teachers, I address a full range of issues facing LGBTQ students and families at elementary and secondary school. I also talk to teachers about normalizing LGBTQ lives in the curriculum, challenging homophobic and transphobic ideas, and building an inclusive school culture that both expects and welcomes LGBTQ students and their families.   The book also includes a terrific nuanced glossary of terms and definitions written by research team member benjamin lee hicks.

Available at  at: www.amazon.ca

Current Arts-Based Research:
LGBTQ Families Speak Out

LGBTQ Families Speak Out is a six-year research study about the experiences of LGBTQ families on Ontario Schools (2014-2020). Tara and her research team have gathered video interviews from 37 LGBTQ families across Ontario and who share their experiences on our website:  www.lgbtqfamiliesspeakout.ca

The team has also created a multi-media verbatim theatre performance based on the interviews called Out at School.

Out at School was performed in July 2018 at the L Fest in Llandudno, Wales and the 2019 Toronto Pride Festival on June 14 and 15, 2018.

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