The Sunday Supper Series is a monthly initiative that aims to encourage open dialogue in a safe space and address the experiences of students, specifically equity-deserving students, on Queen’s campus. Topics are informed by the results of the Shift Survey and each event features a free meal, music and meaningful conversation.
Past Sunday Supper Series Events
The final Sunday Supper Series of the 2023 school year was a special Student Voices Week edition. Students gathered to watch a live recording of the Shift Podcast, a platform for equity-deserving and underrepresented students to tell their stories. On this podcast, students speak about their lived experiences at Queen’s, how these experiences are shaped by identity, their visions for a safer and more inclusive campus climate, and what needs to happen for there to be a meaningful and lasting culture shift. This conversation featured a panel of male-identifying Queen's students on the importance of male allyship.
Led by peer facilitators from AMS' BIPOC Talk and the SEO's Lead, Include, Transform training, students unpacked Audre Lorde's Uses of Anger to reflect on their own roles in challenging racism.
Throughout the conversation, they:
- discussed Audre Lorde's 'Uses of Anger' and other excerpts from Sister Outsider.
- unpacked how to show up to dialogue about racism and intersectionality, without centering oneself, so that we can organize for positive change.
- learned about the difference between anger and hate.
The session was open to all Queen’s students wanting to learn more about trans allyship.
Student facilitators led a conversation unpacking Trans Day of Remembrance (TDOR), what it is and why it is so important to honour it and be allies to trans peers.
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The session was open to all current Queen’s students wanting to learn more about addressing microaggressions and navigating difficult conversations.
Student facilitators from the Lead, Include, Transform and Bystander Intervention training programs led a conversation on challenging problematic language and approaching difficult conversations with peers, friends and family.
The session was open to all current Queen’s students wishing to learn about the history of Orange Shirt Day and how they can be allies to Indigenous peers.
Facilitated by staff from the Office of Indigenous Initiatives, participants learned about the residential school system and Phyllis Webstad's experience which gives Orange Shirt Day its name. They shared a meal of bannock and Three Sisters Soup and engaged in conversation around Indigenous allyship.
The session was open to all current Queen’s students wishing to participate in a safe and welcoming dialogue about consent culture.
After an introduction by the Student Inclusion & Engagement Coordinator, Consensual Humans Co-Chairs and Gender Based Violence Awareness and Bystander Intervention Facilitators led an open discussion alongside a consent-positive crafting session.
The session was open to all Queen’s students wishing to become better allies to their trans, non-binary and Two-Spirit peers or to anyone within the Queen’s community interested in learning more about this topic.
After a brief overview of relevant Student Experiences Survey results, students shared their thoughts on a number of guiding questions in small groups. The remainder of the event was dedicated to a guest panel and Q&A period.
Guest panelists included, Nikaronhyaa, Dawn Martin, a Two-Spirit gender fluid community leader, teacher, learner and speaker of the Mohawk language, and Seed Keeper, and Dr. Elliot Chapple, the Director, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Indigenization for the faculty of Arts & Sciences at Queen's.
