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Alexis Poirier-Saumure
Alexis Poirier-Saumure is a PhD candidate working under the supervision of Krista Lynes. His work is located at the intersection of critical, antioppressive and queer approaches to pedagogies of gender and sexuality on one hand, and collaborative and autoethnographic methodologies on the other. In commitment to critical, collective and self-reflexive modes of knowledge production, his thesis will narrate the creation and processes of a community of practice where collaborative methodologies will be mobilized in order to craft, together with high school teachers of sexual education, a set of critical, antioppressive and queer pedagogical practices for sexual education. For the past 4 years, he has collaborated with Natalie Kouri-Towe (Simone de Beauvoir Institute) on a research project that centers on the affective sociopolitical and pedagogical implications of trigger warning use in post-secondary classrooms across Canada. He also works as a researcher at Collège de Maisonneuve, where he participates in various research projects around pedagogy and learning.