Katelyn DykstraDr. Katelyn Dykstra is a Sessional Instructor at the University of Manitoba, Canada. Katelyn recently completed a post-doctoral fellowship that explores critical community literacies in a queer context. In this work, she explores the way that queer pople learn to tell their stories to service providers and other people in their circle of care. This project draws on her doctoral thesis, which focused on intersex representation, including a chapter on intersex life-writing. She is also collaborating on a research project with queer and trans youth in rural spaces. She has published her work in edited collections on Health Humanities, graphic narrative, and in Leisure Sciences. She is currently a sessional instructor in the Department of English, Theatre, Film & Media at the University of Manitoba and Director of Operations at a rural non-profit that provides supports to people living with intellectual disabilities. Read More Read Less