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DESCRIPTION:Mentorship is never just about guidance. It’s about navigatin
 g the tension between care and conflict\, between silence and presence\, b
 etween being seen and being misunderstood. For Tanveer Anoy and Mehra Shir
 azi\, the journey of Anoy’s MA thesis "Still Existing\, Still Surviving:
  Origin Stories and the Shaping of Queer Activist Grassroots Archives in B
 angladesh" was not simply academic pursuit\, it was an emotional\, politic
 al and intimate journey\, often fraught with challenges.\n\n \n\nThis even
 t is a conversation between a mentee and a mentor who found themselves ent
 angled in the complex labor of telling queer stories from a place of survi
 val. Moderated by Shaina Khan\, a Ph.D. candidate in Women\, Gender\, and 
 Sexuality Studies at Oregon State University\, the dialogue will explore t
 he often-invisible dynamics of mentorship: the unsaid expectations\, the m
 oments of fracture\, and the work of repair. Through sharing personal stor
 ies and tensions\, Anoy and Mehra will reflect on what it means to build a
  partnership in a system that rarely makes space for slowness\, mutuality\
 , or discomfort.\n\n \n\nThe thesis at the heart of this mentorship revolv
 ed around a deeply autoethnographic project\, one that carried the complex
 ities of queer trauma\, survivor memory\, political exile\, and archival r
 esistance. Writing it meant confronting grief\, navigating institutional g
 atekeeping\, and choosing vulnerability within a structure that often dema
 nds detachment. It also meant placing trust in someone\, transcending gene
 rational\, cultural\, and epistemic boundaries\, to hold that process with
  care.\n\n \n\nThis is not simply a success story: It’s a living story. 
 One where care had to be redefined again and again. One where both mentor 
 and mentee learned the importance of honest communication to speak honestl
 y\, even when it felt uncomfortable. Ultimately\, the outcome was not just
  the thesis itself\, but a relationship built on shared understanding and 
 liberatory care.\n\n \n\nToo often\, mentorship in academia is imagined as
  a one-way path. But in queer\, feminist\, and decolonial work\, mentorshi
 p is a site of negotiation and sometimes rupture\, a space where mutual ac
 countability and creative collaboration can happen\, but only when both pa
 rties choose to show up fully.\n\n \n\nThis event invites all of us\, stud
 ents\, faculty\, activists\, and educators\, to rethink what we owe each o
 ther in spaces of learning and care\, because mentorship is not a gift or 
 a transaction\, it is a commitment to listen\, to grow\, and to stay\, eve
 n when it’s messy.
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SUMMARY:Bodies of Trust\, Acts of Care: A Conversation on Queer Mentorship 
 and Academic Partnership
URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.oregonstate.edu/event/bodies-of-trust-acts-of-
 care-a-conversation-on-queer-mentorship-and-academic-partnership
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