In this session, the presenters will name the distinct vocational challenges faced by many LGBTQIA+ students. More specifically, they will identify the ways in which many well-received texts, models, and pedagogies related to vocation can sometimes actually function to marginalize queer students, making it more difficult for these students to embrace their vocational identities. The panelists will share their own strategies for queer(ing) vocation; they will also offer specific techniques and approaches for making vocation a more inclusive and liberating framework that educators and advisors can employ in their own educational contexts.
Kiki Kosnick, Associate Professor of French, Francophone Studies, and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Augustana College (IL)
Mary Elise Lowe, Professor of Religion, Augsburg University (MN)
RJ Rapoza, Co-Director of the Manresa Program and Associate Director of Career Advising and Development, Le Moyne College (NY)