Brown Bag Biography with Roz Bellamy

November 16, 12:00pm - 1:15pm
Mānoa Campus, Biomed B-104 & Zoom

The Center for Biographical Research presents: /“'Living a life that allows happiness to grow': Explorations of agency in life writing by LGBTQ+ youth” / Dr. Roz Bellamy, Academic, La Trobe University, Melbourne/Naarm / In this presentation, Roz Bellamy will examine findings from an empirical study into the life writing of 15 LGBTQ+ people aged 16-20 living in Australia, and Bellamy's own life writing that allowed them to explore their positionality during the study. The participants’ writing offered insights into their processes of developing as agentic selves and making sense of life experiences, including trauma and adversity. Their writing also indicated that struggling with mental ill-health may involve some sort of loss of agency and voice, and that life writing may provide an outlet for (re)gaining agency./ Roz Bellamy is an academic, author, and editor based in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia. In 2022, they completed their PhD research examining the impact of life writing on young LGBTQ+ people’s sense of self, identity, and subjectivity. Roz’s memoir, Mood: A Memoir of Love, Identity and Mental Health, was published in October 2023 by Wakefield Press. / Cosponsored by Hamilton Library, the Hawaiʻinuiākea School of Hawaiian Knowledge, the Matsunaga Institute, Conflict and Peace Specialist, the School of Communication & Information, and the Departments of American Studies, English, Ethnic Studies, Sociology, and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies / Thursday, November 16 / Biomed B-104 & Zoom / 12PM to 1:15PM HST / https://hawaii.zoom.us/j/92817275646 /Meeting ID: 928 1727 5646 / Password: 771827


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