Celebrating who you are: how clothing shapes LGBTQ+ and feminist weddings
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Resource Description
Suitable for 14-19-year olds (secondary and high schools, and college), this article and accompanying activity sheet can be used in the classroom, art clubs and at home.
This resource links to KS4 and KS5/Grade 9-10 and Grade 11-12 sociology and art & design.
It can also be used as a careers resource and links to Gatsby Benchmarks (UK):
Gatsby Benchmark 2: Learning from career and labour market information
Gatsby Benchmark 4: Linking curriculum learning to careers
• This teaching resource explains the work of Dr Ilya Parkins, a feminist fashion scholar at the University of British Columbia, Canada. She is exploring the role that clothing plays in shaping LGBTQ+ and feminist weddings and how clothing is used to showcase identities and values.
• This resource also contains an interview with Ilya and offers an insight into careers in gender, women and sexuality studies. If your students have questions for Ilya, they can send them through the Futurum Careers website.
• The activity sheet provides ‘talking points’ (based on Bloom’s Taxonomy) to prompt students to reflect on Ilya’s research and challenges them to listen to the interviews Ilya conducted with people who are LGBTQ+ and/or feminist and explore how they used clothing in their weddings.
This resource was first published by Futurum Careers, a free online resource and magazine aimed at encouraging 14-19-year-olds worldwide to pursue careers in science, tech, engineering, maths, medicine (STEM) and social sciences, humanities and the arts for people and the economy (SHAPE).
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