Gerhardt Troan

Gerhardt Troan
Community Member, Student
(Quest University Canada)

Gerhardt (he/she/they) is a fourth-year student at Quest University Canada, where he studies LGBTQIA+, feminist, and indigenous philosophy. The youngest member of the Foodlands team, Gerhardt was raised on-and-off of Fraser Common Farm.

In Squamish, Gerhardt has hosted and spoken at events hosted in association with Pride Squamish, the Howe Sound Welcome Centre, and the Quest University Lumen Room. Their research and writing attempts to at once acknowledge and bridge, inasmuch as is ever possible, the epistemic, conceptual, and empathic gaps between hegemonic and marginalized experiences and communities. In their work with Foodlands, Gerhardt hopes to investigate what mutualistic and ongoing decolonization might (and already does) look like in British Columbia, and within that, what it means to exist as a settler on and in relation to stolen and storied, yet undeniably co-inhabited land.