Events

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 [...]

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 [...]

Queer Songbook Orchestra presents "Roasted Chestnuts IX"
Roasted Chestnuts IX, an annual gathering of music and storytelling hosted by the Queer Songbook Orchestra, is a holiday fundraiser with a focus on chosen [...]