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[leadership report] Catullan Identities -- A Reflective Report on Community and Leadership

During my time as a Laidlaw scholar, my idea of and ultimately my relationship with what it means to be a leader fundamentally changed. An elementary part of this journey was my own reckoning with what it means to belong to and in a community -- and how we foster this belonging in the face of rising crises and waves of hatred.

Sep 07, 2022

Toni Andres

student, University of St Andrews

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Toni Andres (they/he)

student, University of St Andrews

I am currently in my fourth year of an undergraduate degree in Classics/Comparative Literature at the University of St Andrews and am particularly interested in accessibility within academia through public engagement and community building. In my research project Queer Catullus, Catullan Queers, I looked at the history of queer adaptations of poems by the ancient Roman poet Catullus. Based on this research, I set up the collaborative arts project Catullan Identities which invited people to respond to the ancient poems creatively. During my Leadership-in-Action project I transformed this approach into a series of queer creative workshops which I ran in different parts of Scotland and that aimed at empowering queer communities in the face of rising transphobia and queerphobia across the UK. Please feel free to browse the gallery of Catullan Identities on my website and don’t hesitate to get in touch with any questions.