Events
The Queer Art of Failing to Write: Two Day Workshop on Un-Writing
The Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies is organizing an upcoming workshop, which will take place at the Ethnography Lab. The workshop will take place [...]
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 [...]
Sex Salon: On Spaces Beneath and Within: A Talk About Erotic Scholarship/Artistic Practices
You are invited to The Sex Salon's upcoming virtual event! “On Spaces Beneath and Within: A Talk About Erotic Scholarship/Artistic Practices” is a scholar-artist talk [...]
For the Gays... We had Jazz: Making New Worlds with the Kewpie Photographic Collection
In apartheid South Africa, a group of self-described gays and girls lived and worked as hairdressers and on-stage performers in Cape Town’s bustling and [...]
Book Talk: Trans Technologies with Professor Oliver L. Haimson
The Queer and Trans Research Lab (QTRL)/Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies, University of Toronto invites you to a book talk on Trans Technologies (MIT Press, 2025), with Oliver [...]
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 [...]
Sex Salon - Sex, Sin, and Cinema: Obscenity Law and Moral Regulation in the Early 1980s Alberta
This talk examines the history of Canadian obscenity law through key legal cases in Alberta, focusing on the 1980 trial of "Dracula Sucks" in Edmonton [...]
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 [...]