Christine Wildman
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Workplace Harassment and Violence Against 2SLGBTQIA+ Populations: Microaggressions as a Form of Gender-Based Violence
This Webinar was presented and recorded on March 19, 2025.
For those working in the gender-based violence (GBV) sector, understanding the unique challenges faced by 2SLGBTQIA+ populations in the workplace is crucial to providing comprehensive support, advocacy and safety at work. Microaggressions, rooted in assumptions of heterosexuality and binary gender norms, represent a pervasive form of GBV that often goes unaddressed in professional settings. These subtle, often unconscious behaviors-such as misgendering, invasive questions, assumptions about gender roles, outing colleagues, or inappropriate jokes – can have significant psychological and professional impacts on 2SLGBTQIA+ individuals.
Workplaces often mirror, societal structures that privilege heterosexual and cisgender identities, perpetuating harm through exclusionary practices. Examples include language that assumes heterosexuality, forms and policies limited to binary gender categories, and a lack of accommodations for diverse gender identities and expressions. These microaggressions, not only undermine individual well-being, but also contribute to systematic GBV by reinforcing the marginalization and erasure of 2SLGBTQIA+ individuals.
This session equips GBV professionals with the knowledge to address these issues within their organizations.
Webinar Recording
Learning Objectives
By participating in this Webinar, participants will better be able to:
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The intersection of workplace microaggressions and GBV
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The specific impacts of microaggressions on 2SLGBTQIA+ individuals, including mental health, job performance, and workplace safety.
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Strategies for fostering inclusive, and affirming work environments, both within GBV organizations, and in the broader workplace where survivors may be employed
Speaker
Christine Wildman (they/them) is a queer, critical feminist, activist and academic. Christine is invested in community organizing, working on various initiatives related to creating community, space, visibility, safety, and acceptance for 2SLGBTQIA+ people. Christine co-founded WorQshop: Building Safer Spaces, a non-profit organization that provides education and consultations services to organizations that aim to become more inclusive to 2SLGBTQIA+ populations. They are a critical community-engaged researcher with a PhD in Sociology, specializing in Identities and Social Inclusion. Christine’s research and teaching has focused on 2SLGBTQIA+ rights/needs, experiences of intimate partner violence, and access to services and community in small to medium populations centres, as well as violence against women and gender diverse populations. Christine is also a Research and Knowledge Mobilization specialist for the Neighbours, Friends and Families campaign, which is a provincial IPV prevention campaign, out of the Centre for Research and Education on Violence Against Women and Children.
Le harcèlement et la violence en milieu de travail envers les populations 2ELGBTQIA+ : les microagressions comme forme de violence fondée sur le genre
Ce Webinaire a été présenté et enregistré le 19 mars 2025.
Pour les personnes qui travaillent dans le secteur de la violence fondée sur le genre (VFG), il est essentiel de comprendre les défis uniques auxquels font face les populations 2ELGBTQIA+ en milieu de travail afin d’offrir un soutien complet, un plaidoyer efficace et un environnement professionnel sécuritaire. Les microagressions, enracinées dans des hypothèses d’hétérosexualité et des normes binaires de genre, constituent une forme omniprésente de VFG qui passe souvent inaperçue dans les milieux professionnels. Ces comportements subtils et souvent inconscients, comme le mégenrage, les questions intrusives, les suppositions sur les rôles de genre, le déplacardage de collègues ou les blagues inappropriées, peuvent avoir d’importantes répercussions psychologiques et professionnelles sur les personnes 2ELGBTQIA+.
Les milieux de travail reflètent souvent des structures sociétales qui privilégient les identités hétérosexuelles et cisgenres, perpétuant le préjudice par des pratiques d’exclusion. On y retrouve, entre autres, un langage qui suppose l’hétérosexualité, des formulaires et des politiques qui se limitent à des catégories binaires de genre, ainsi qu’un manque d’accommodement pour diverses identités et expressions de genre. Non seulement ces microagressions nuisent au bien-être individuel, mais elles renforcent également la marginalisation et l’invisibilisation des personnes 2ELGBTQIA+, contribuant ainsi à la VFG systémique en renforçant la marginalisation et l’effacement des personnes 2ELGBTQIA+.
Cette séance permettra aux professionnel.les de la VFG d’acquérir les connaissances nécessaires pour aborder ces enjeux au sein de leur organisme.
Enregistrement du Webinaire
Objectifs d'apprentissage
Ce webinaire permet aux participant.e.s de
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L’intersection de la VFG et des microagressions en milieu de travail
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Les répercussions précises des microagressions sur les personnes 2ELGBTQIA+, y compris la santé mentale, le rendement au travail et la sécurité au travail
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Des stratégies visant à favoriser des milieux de travail inclusifs et affirmatifs, tant au sein des organismes du secteur de la VFG que dans l’ensemble du milieu de travail où les survivantes peuvent être employées
Conférencière
Christine Wildman (iel) est une personne queer, féministe critique, militante et universitaire. Christine s’investit dans l’organisation communautaire et travaille à diverses initiatives liées à la création de communautés, d’espace, de visibilité, de sécurité et d’acceptation pour les personnes 2ELGBTQIA+. Christine a cofondé WorQshop: Building Safer Spaces, un organisme sans but lucratif qui offre des services d’éducation et de consultation à des organismes qui veulent devenir plus inclusifs pour les populations 2ELGBTQIA+. Christine est chercheureuse critique engagé.e dans la communauté, titulaire d’un doctorat en sociologie, avec spécialisation dans les identités et l’inclusion sociale. La recherche et l’enseignement de Christine ont porté sur les droits et les besoins des personnes 2ELGBTQIA+, les expériences de violence entre partenaires intimes (VPI), ainsi que l’accès aux services et à la communauté dans les centres de petites et moyennes populations, de même que la violence faite aux femmes et aux populations de diverses identités de genre. Christine est également spécialiste en recherche et en mobilisation des connaissances pour la campagne provinciale de prévention de la VPI, Voisins, amis et familles, menée par le Centre de recherche et d’éducation sur la violence contre les femmes et les enfants de l’Université Western.
Workplace Harassment and Violence Against 2SLGBTQIA+ Populations: Microaggressions as a Form of Gender-Based Violence
ASL Channel Recording
This Webinar was presented and recorded on March 19, 2025.
For those working in the gender-based violence (GBV) sector, understanding the unique challenges faced by 2SLGBTQIA+ populations in the workplace is crucial to providing comprehensive support, advocacy and safety at work. Microaggressions, rooted in assumptions of heterosexuality and binary gender norms, represent a pervasive form of GBV that often goes unaddressed in professional settings. These subtle, often unconscious behaviors-such as misgendering, invasive questions, assumptions about gender roles, outing colleagues, or inappropriate jokes – can have significant psychological and professional impacts on 2SLGBTQIA+ individuals.
Workplaces often mirror, societal structures that privilege heterosexual and cisgender identities, perpetuating harm through exclusionary practices. Examples include language that assumes heterosexuality, forms and policies limited to binary gender categories, and a lack of accommodations for diverse gender identities and expressions. These microaggressions, not only undermine individual well-being, but also contribute to systematic GBV by reinforcing the marginalization and erasure of 2SLGBTQIA+ individuals.
This session equips GBV professionals with the knowledge to address these issues within their organizations.
Learning Objectives
By participating in this Webinar, participants will better be able to:
-
The intersection of workplace microaggressions and GBV
-
The specific impacts of microaggressions on 2SLGBTQIA+ individuals, including mental health, job performance, and workplace safety.
-
Strategies for fostering inclusive, and affirming work environments, both within GBV organizations, and in the broader workplace where survivors may be employed.
Speaker
Christine Wildman (they/them) is a queer, critical feminist, activist and academic. Christine is invested in community organizing, working on various initiatives related to creating community, space, visibility, safety, and acceptance for 2SLGBTQIA+ people. Christine co-founded WorQshop: Building Safer Spaces, a non-profit organization that provides education and consultations services to organizations that aim to become more inclusive to 2SLGBTQIA+ populations. They are a critical community-engaged researcher with a PhD in Sociology, specializing in Identities and Social Inclusion. Christine’s research and teaching has focused on 2SLGBTQIA+ rights/needs, experiences of intimate partner violence, and access to services and community in small to medium populations centres, as well as violence against women and gender diverse populations. Christine is also a Research and Knowledge Mobilization specialist for the Neighbours, Friends and Families campaign, which is a provincial IPV prevention campaign, out of the Centre for Research and Education on Violence Against Women and Children.
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