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No One Has Imagined Us. | Max Backer | TEDxSJFC

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Channel: TEDx Talks · 2018 · Nonprofits & Activism

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How one professor brought gender identity and trans studies to a campus community. Gender identity is fluid and acceptance is a community effort. We need more gender fluid professors and teachers to educate and accept our students. Max Backer is a queer poet and spoken word artist from Rochester, NY. She teaches English, Women's Studies, and American Studies at St. John Fisher College. Backer was a 2012 Lambda Fellow in Poetry and has performed in Los Angeles, Vancouver, Boston, Toronto, and New York City. Her talk is entitled No One has Imagines Us: The Gender Non Binary Experience.

Max Backer is a queer poet and spoken word artist from Rochester, NY. She teaches English, Women's Studies, and American Studies at St. John Fisher College. Backer was a 2012 Lambda Fellow in Poetry and has performed in Los Angeles, Vancouver, Boston, Toronto, and New York City. Her talk is entitled No One has Imagines Us: The Gender Non Binary Experience. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

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