1. ElissasTipsy TurveyJourney Presented By: Elissa Smith [email_address]

2. 3. 4. Presentation Overview

Personal Reflections

Summary of Experiences

Good courses at UBC & reflections on GRS

Summer on the farm

Current struggles

What the future has in store

Academic interests

5. Personal Reflections

Narratives are good for sharing experiences/lessons

Ask questions please :)

Didnt really go on exchange

6. Summary of Experiences

I wanted to be a wise healer woman

Later, I wanted to bridge the gap between environmental science and policy

1st year was hardest year academically

7. 8. Summary of Experiences

Modify SuccessRedefine Success

Went on European Youth For Action bike tour

Then went back to Guelph for 2nd year

Made a list of 6 summer conclusions;

• science is subjective & constructed

• the importance of walking the talk as an activist

• I can do whatever I want to do as long as I try hard enough

9. Summary of Experiences

http: //broweryouthawards . org/userdata_display . php ? modin=50 & uid=99

+ AGSC 250 = Ego Implosion & Adrenal Burnout

Couldnt reconcile a career in international climate activism with my responsibilities to family, farm and community.

New gang who valued farming.

So much flying. Inconsistent with message.

10. Summary of Experiences

Transferred to UBC!

Redefined success (slowly)

Didnt seriously volunteer for anything for an entire year

Climate change - nauseous & tried to do a SEEDS project and I couldnt face it.

Realized that Im only responsible for me and thats okay. Focus on my self - being sustainable.

Realized that I dont have to be perfect to deserve love.

11. 12. 13. 14. Good Courses to Take

FNLG 101 Hnqminm with Larry Grant

WMST 300 Introductions to Gender Relations with Chris Shelly

PHIL 433 Biomedical Ethics with Anita Ho

ANTH 304 Ethnography of the Northwest with Bruce Miller

SOCI 301 Development & underdevelopment withJenn Chun

Explore Program!

15. Critique of GRS

freedom of taking whatever I wanted at UBC.

Challenging:

• background knowledge sometimes

• Changing study styles and writing styles

Overall I was a stronger student (?) broader base of understanding

Renaissance woman

16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. Struggles for me

Scared to graduate in less than a month.

Still mind/body dualism - Sacrifice body for mind. Quote.

Trying not to compare myself to others

Work on throat & sacrum chakra

If Im a social construction than is there such thing as authentic desire?

27. Future has in Store

Dad retiring in 4 years

Farmer, good community member & mom !

Sad about midwifery Massage therapy ?

Yoga instructors course ! Doula ! Meditation !

Want to learn basic Mohawk eventually.

* Journal Entry*

Make a healing cooperative on the farm. Employ permaculturists, massage therapists, meditation experts

28. Academic Interests

Critical analysis of science as non-universal

First Nations Studies, Gender Studies, Sociology & Anthropology

Foucault, Semiotics, post-colonial theory, queer theory,

Alternatives to industrial capitalism

Proportional representation (?)

Still happy about learning in academic institutions!

29. Academic Interests

Honarariums for art

Grants for gender related projects/events

Space for chilling

Workshops/events

Hiring for 3 coordinators - 10 hrs/week. $16. Work study position: resource coordinator, events coordinator and organisational coordinator.

www.womynscentre.ca