12th Annual Conference – Trauma: Affects, Resiliencies and Informed Practice

Our project is a long overdue response to this call to action in order to amplify and share stories from survivors of elder abuse in order to further understand the conditions in which the abuse of LGBTQ+ elders occur, identify the best way to support the agency and resilience of these survivors, and challenge and expand theoretical discussions of queer elder abuse. [...] Created in partnership with QMUNITY (BC’s Resource Centre for Queer, Trans and Two Spirit people), the goal of this project is to uncover and ultimately, to publish the narratives of individual survivors that will empower others to break the cycle of shame and silence. [...] Although awareness surrounding equity, anti– racism and inclusion is growing in society and valuable progress is being made in these areas in schools across BC, I suggest that in order to elucidate the intricacies of relational violence for effective intervention and to support individual and communal healing, it is crucial to foreground the lived experiences and perspectives of community members. [...] Davis is a member of the Advisory Board of the Council for Adult and Experiential Learning and has served on various committees and commissions in the US and Canada. [...] He is past President and a Distinguished Member of the Canadian Society for the Study of Higher Education and is on the Board of the Collaboration for Online Higher 14 Education Research.