media & presentations

select media interviews & research coverage

Transgender athletes challenge Alberta legislation through sharing of ‘lived experience’. The Calgary Journal. November 27 2024.

Athletic organizations react to Alberta ban on trans women in female sport. CBC News. November 1 2024.

QriTical research hub helps foster connection, belonging for MRU’s 2SLGBTQIA+ community. MRU Media Room. February 28 2024.

Rolling into the 21st century: Making skateboarding more inclusive. The Calgary Journal November 15 2023.

Research featured in Toronto Star article, “A Sense of Home”. April 20 2023.

After cancer treatment, non-binary singer Rae Spoon took on the system with most personal album. Calgary Herald. September 7 2023.

Guest on CBC Radio morning shows across Canada, profiling the new National Resource Centre on 2SLGBTQI Aging. November 21 2022.

Guest on CBC Radio morning shows across Canada, profiling research on long-term care and dementia. June 14 2022.

CTV Your Morning | S6:E198 | Removing barriers to dementia care. CTV News. May 25 2022.

Navigating Dementia in the 2SLGBTQI Community. Dementia Connections Magazine. March 1 2022.

podcasts

recent invited speaking and lectures

“Bill 29 and Trans & Nonbinary Inclusion at MRU.” Inclusion Week, Mount Royal University. March 21 2025.

“Being “unbefriended”: Troubling capacity, consent, and cis-heteronormativity in substitute decision-making laws and practices. ” Carleton University Department of Sociology and Anthropology Colloquium. March 13 2025.

“Collaborating Through the Arts to Explore 2SLGBTQIA+ Care Access”. 2SLGBTQ+ Health Hub. January 3 2025.

“Queer Methods Student Workshop”. QriTical Undergraduate Research Series. Mount Royal University. September 25 2025.

“Experiences of 2SLGBTQIA+ People Living with Dementia and their Care Partners”. Invited webinar presentation, Alzheimer Society of Ontario. June 14 2024.

“Creating Affirming Workspaces for 2SLGBTQIA+ Elders”. Invited webinar presentation, Pride at Work. October 11 2023.

“Housing Needs and Considerations Among LGBTQI Older Adults in Canada”. PL8110: Advanced Graduate Planning Studio, School of Urban and Regional Planning, Toronto Metropolitan University. February 14 2023.

“Ethics in Research with People Living Cognitive Disability & Difference.” Ethnographic Methods, Department of Anthropology, Mount Royal University. November 10 2022.

“Security, Accessibility, and Community: Housing Needs and Considerations Among LGBTQI Older Adults in Canada.” Rainbow Resource Centre Planning with Pride conference. November 2 2022.

“Acting in Allyship with 2SLGBTQI People Living with Dementia.” Sinai Health Geriatrics Institute Education Day. June 14 2022.

“Turning Up the Volume on 2SLGBTQI Needs in the Dementia Space.” Alzheimer Society of Canada “Dementia Talks” series. June 22 2022.

“What Can Researchers Do?” Future Us: A Roadmap to Elder Abuse Prevention. Canadian Network for Elder Abuse Prevention. March 30 2022.

“Supporting Gender and Sexual Fluidity in Long-Term Care.” Allied for Inclusivity in Long-Term Care: A Forum to Build Connections. Ontario Centres for Learning, Research & Innovation in Long-Term Care. February 9 2022.

“Queer Perspective on Aging and Social Policy in Canada.” Social Work and Aging Policy, Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto. 14 February, 2022

recent academic research presentations

Pérez-Rivera, G. C., Nakamura, T., Pang, C., and Dolcecore, G. (2025). “(Re)Imagining First-in-Family Student Experience Through Participatory Arts-Based Action Research.” Symposium for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning 2025. Banff, AB. 15 October.

Pang, C. (2025). “Stranger Than Family: The Queer Socialities of Long-Term Care.” Medical Anthropology Europe Conference. Vienna, Austria. 17 September.

Pheasant-Neganigwane, K., Waucash-Warn, J., Pérez-Rivera, G. C., Pang, C., and Manywounds, A. (2025). “Big Aunty Energy: Reflections on the Creation of and Learnings from the Aunties | Anti Art Exhibit at MRU. Teaching and Learning Expo, Mount Royal University. Calgary, AB. 28 August.

Pang, C., Dolcecore, G., Bošnjak, E., and Clark, M. (2025). “It’s just tricky with our political climate here”: Experiences and perspectives of anti-trans policy in sports and recreation. Canadian Association for Leisure Studies at Congress 2025. George Brown College. Toronto, ON. 3 June.

Kia, H., Pang, C., Göncü, K., Jakubiec, B., MacKinnon, K. R., Handlovsky, I., and Ross, L. E. (2025). Experiences of Transgender and Gender-Diverse Older Adults in Canada: A Qualitative Study. Moving Trans History Forward 2025 Conference. University of Victoria. Victoria, BC. 28 March.

Pang, C. (2024). Mobilizing to Address Systemic Elder Abuse Through Disability Justice. CBRC Summit 2024: Vigilance & Vision. Vancouver, BC. 22 November.

Pang, C. (2024). Third Persons Present: Vitalities of Friendship and Familiarity in LGBTQ+ Aging. World Anthropological Union Congress. Johannesburg, South Africa. 11 November.

Pang, C. (2024). In/capacitated to care: Cis-heteronormativity in substitute decision-making laws and practices in dementia care. Canadian Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, 2024 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. Montreal, QC. 15 June.

Pang, C., Jakubiec, B.A.E., Schambach, M. (2023). “The image is asking, ‘how do we do this?’”: Imagining Futures of Care with LGBTQ Older Adults and Personal Support Workers Through Arts-Based Action Research. Sexuality Studies Association, Congress. 1 June.

Pang, C., Jakubiec, B.A.E., Seida, K. Garrett-Walker, J. (2023). “I need healthcare to be anti-misogynistic”: Examining intersections of racism and cisheterosexism in Canadian healthcare. WGSRF, Congress. 29 May.

Pang, C. and Maclennan, E. (2022). Housing Possibilities for Aging LGBTQI Communities. Community-Based Research Centre (CBRC) Summit 2022: Pushing Possibilities, Virtual, 20 October.

Pang, C. and Flanagan, A. (2022). Transforming Research into Collective Action: Developing a Knowledge Mobilization Strategy to Enhance Support for 2SLGBTQI People Living with Dementia and their Unpaid Carers in Canada. Canadian Association on Gerontology: Closing the Research-Practice Gap, Regina, SK, 21 October.

Pang, C. (2021). Ageism and Heteronormativity: Troubling Tropes of Social Isolation and Loneliness in Older Age. International Federation on Ageing. 15^th Global Conference on Ageing: Rights Matter. Niagara Falls, ON, 11 November.

Pang, C. (2021). Roundtable Participant. “Precarious Connections: Exploring Social Disconnection Across the Life Course”. Invited Session at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting. Baltimore, MD, 20 November.

Pang, C. (2021). Cultivating Queer Intimacies: Reflections on Friendship and Affirmation in Long-Term Care. Canadian Association on Gerontology: Hindsight 20/20: Looking Back for a Vision Forward in Gerontology. Virtual, 22 October.

Pang, C. (2021). Situating Long-Term Care as a Question of Housing and Homelessness. Summit 2021, Community Based Research Centre (CBRC) annual conference. Virtual, 28 October.

Pang, C. (2019). I Never Said I Didn’t: Coherent Selfhood and Challenges of Consent. Joint Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association and Canadian Anthropology Society. Vancouver, BC, 21 November.

Pang, C. (2019). Social Isolation and Aging with HIV: Crip and Queer Reorientations. Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting. Portland, OR, 20 March.

Pang, C. (2019). Trans Temporalities and Queer Crafts of Care. “Arts of Caring, Arts of Knowing: A Workshop on Dementia and Knowledge Practices”. Copenhagen, Denmark, 19-20 September.

Pang, C. (2018). Scenes of Doubt: Senility, Queerness, and the Binds of Care. American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting. San Jose, CA, 14 November.