UBC Film Screening & Discussion: Pride vs. Prejudice

Supriya Routh  – Professor and Canada Research Chair in Labour Law & Social Justice, and Associate Dean, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, Peter A. Allard School of Law, UBC

Supriya Routh is a Professor at the Allard School of Law, and Associate Dean, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion. His research interests include theory of labour and employment law, legitimacy of law-making for sustainable livelihoods, social justice and global value chains, postcolonialism and informal workers in the Global South, human rights and international labour law and workers’ collection action. His socio-legal research agenda straddles the disciplines of law, political philosophy, and sociology.

Prior to joining the Allard School of Law, Supriya was an Assistant and Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Victoria, where he also held an appointment as an Associate at the Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives. Before moving to Canada, he was an Assistant Professor at the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences in India.

Cicely Belle Blain (they/them), BA’16 – Writer and Consultant

Cicely Belle Blain is a queer, neurodivergent writer, entrepreneur and activist from London, UK, now based in Vancouver. They are passionate about heart-centred leadership, anti-oppressive education and creating space for justice-oriented conversations and change. Cicely Belle is the CEO of Bakau Consulting, an anti-racist consulting company, the Editorial Director of Ripple of Change Magazine, and the author of Burning Sugar (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2020). They also instruct Executive Leadership at Simon Fraser University and serve on the board of the Tegan and Sara Foundation. Cicely Belle is one of the founders of Black Lives Matter Vancouver and was subsequently listed as one of Vancouver's 50 most powerful people by Vancouver Magazine in 2018 and one of BC Business's 30 under 30. 

Erez Aloni (he/him) –  Associate Professor, Peter A. Allard School of Law

Erez Aloni’s scholarship examines how the law of family and intimacy both reflects and reshapes broader legal and social orders. He is particularly interested in family law’s exceptional position within private law and in the distributive consequences of regulating marriage, cohabitation, and surrogacy. His work highlights the paradoxes of recognition: how legal reforms designed to promote equality can also entrench hierarchy and produce new forms of disadvantage.

Aloni serves on the Executive Council of the International Society of Family Law and has been Faculty Co-Editor of the Canadian Journal of Family Law since 2017. He is also a Contributing Editor in the Equality Section of Jotwell. In addition to publishing in scholarly law journals and edited collections, he has written op-eds for the LA Times, The Guardian, The Globe and Mail, and The Vancouver Sun, and he is a frequent source of expert commentary in media.

At the Peter A. Allard School of Law, Aloni teaches contracts, family law, and law and sexuality. His dedication to teaching excellence was recognized with the George Curtis Memorial Award in 2021, and his research achievements with the Killam Faculty Research Fellowship in 2023. Earlier in his career, he was a Fellow at the Center for Reproductive Rights and Columbia Law School, and an Assistant Professor at Whittier Law School in California. He earned his LL.M. and S.J.D. at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he also taught a course on law and sexuality.

Glen Hansman  (he/him), MA’08 – Elementary Resource Teacher, Vancouver Public School

Glen Hansman is an elementary teacher in Vancouver, who works with students with disabilities and neurodiverse students. He was the President of the Vancouver Elementary School Teachers’ Association (2007-2009) before becoming a Vice President of the BC Teachers’ Federation (BCTF) (2010-2016) and President of the BCTF (2016-2019). 

Glen played a role in numerous curricular and policy changes at the provincial level in the areas of Indigenous education, school climate for 2SLGBTQI+ youth and staff, and inclusion and school safety. He was the successful party in Hansman v. Neufeld, a Supreme Court of Canada decision from 2023 that: affirms the dignity and equality interests of trans individuals under Canadian law; and, recognizes the importance of “counter-speech” to vulnerable groups, including 2SLGBTQI+ people, and thus the weighty public interest in protecting such counter-speech under the Charter.

Douglas Stollery – Executive Producer, Pride Vs. Prejudice: The Delwin Vriend Story, and Counsel, Reynolds, Mirth, Richards & Farmer LLP 

Doug volunteered as co-counsel to Delwin Vriend before the Supreme Court of Canada in the ground breaking case of Vriend v. Alberta and is now the Executive Producer of Pride vs. Prejudice:  The Delwin Vriend Story.  

After graduating with law degrees from the University of Alberta and Harvard University and serving as a law clerk to the Supreme Court of Canada, Doug practised with a law firm in Edmonton for about 30 years.  He then went on to serve as general counsel for PCL Constructors Inc., Canada’s largest construction company, before retiring in 2013.  Over the course of his life, he has undertaken a variety of volunteer roles including serving as Chancellor of the University of Alberta, President of the Alberta Branch of the Canadian Bar Association, and a director of the Stollery Children’s Hospital Foundation, CARE Canada and The Stephen Lewis Foundation.

Doug is a member of the Order of Canada and the Alberta Order of Excellence and holds honorary doctorate degrees from the University of Alberta and MacEwan University.