Events

Book Launch: Indenture Aesthetics: Afro-Indian Femininities and the Queer Limits of South African Blackness
Join the WGSI for the launch of Jordache Ellapen’s book, Indenture Aesthetics: Afro-Indian Femininities and the Queer Limits of South African Blackness Friday, March 28, 2025 [...]

Queer & Trans Poetics: 9th Annual Queer Directions Symposium
Queer Directions is an annual symposium at The Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies addressing ideas and pressing issues in queer, trans, and sexuality studies, [...]

Black Boundlessness: Aesthetics, Performance and Ethics Under Duress
This talk presents an overview of my forthcoming book entitled Black Boundlessness: Aesthetics, Performance and Ethics Under Duress which theorizes that Black life is simultaneously [...]

Book Launch: Queer Chimerica by Shana Ye
Join the WGSI in celebrating the launch of Shana Ye’s book: Queer Chimerica: A Speculative Auto/Ethnography of the Cool Child. Wednesday, February 26, 2025 | 4:00pm [...]

Sex & Ethics Reading Group
Graduate Students, Faculty, Postdoctoral Fellows, and Advanced Undergraduates are invited to join this Reading Group, where we will discuss some of the top books recently [...]

Affect Theatre Workshop
AFFECT THEATRE WORKSHOP Workshop Details What: Affect Theatre is a theatrical technique for working with empirical questions and material, such as ethnographic data, archival documents, [...]

The Raves and Riddims of Queer Diaspora: A Panel Discussion
Event Description: Why are queer people from the diaspora partying (or not) today? What kinds of riddims (rhythms) are they dancing to? What’s a buzzkill [...]

Book Launch & World Premier of HEAVY PROCESSING
ABOUT THE BOOK What happens when we take the joke of “lesbian processing” seriously as a research method? Heavy Processing does just this, by tracing the [...]

Picturing by Jory Mickelson Reading & Book Launch
Join The End of the Line Press on Jan. 22, 2025 at 7 pm at Glad Day Bookshop for the launch of Picturing by Jory [...]

2SLGBTQ+ Family Building Symposium
2SLGBTQ+ Family Building Symposium: On January 19, 2025, 2SLGBTQ+ Family Building Canada is holding its first ever symposium on queer and transgender family building. This free in-person event [...]