BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.3//EN TZID:America/Toronto X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Toronto BEGIN:VEVENT UID:79@sds.utoronto.ca DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20220420T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20220420T193000 DTSTAMP:20220418T172055Z URL:http://sds.utoronto.ca/events/april-sex-salon-talking-sex-engaging-wit h-the-pussy-palace-oral-histories/ SUMMARY:April Sex Salon: Talking Sex: Engaging with the Pussy Palace Oral H istories DESCRIPTION:On September 15\, 2000\, five Toronto police raided the Pussy P alace\, an exclusive bathhouse event for queer women and trans folk\, layi ng several charges against the organizers\, accusing them of violating liq uor laws. There has never been an oral history project about this event\, the last police raid of a queer bathhouse in Canadian history. The LGBTQ O ral History Digital Collaboratory\, in collaboration with The ArQuives: Ca nada’s LGBTQ2+ Archives\, has collected 36 interviews with bathhouse pat rons\, event organizers\, and community activists. Our interviews address not only the raid\, but also radical sex/gender cultures in turn of the 21 st century Toronto. Our 6-member team has been working to animate and acti vate these interviews through research creation in the form of audio portr aits\, video shorts\, and other methods.\n\nThis presentation will feature both community narrators and members of the project team. We envision thi s event as a curated ‘viewing and listening party’ designed to engage both the narrators themselves and others interested in queer and trans pub lic history. The presentation will have these parts: a brief overview of t he project\; a showcase of several of our digital research creation experi ments\; a discussion of our creative processes\; reflections from our feat ured narrators\; and an open conversation with attendees about creative wa ys that researchers are collaborating with artists\, project narrators\, a nd others around engaging broader publics in queer and trans history.\nReg ister on Zoom to join the event. ASL interpretation provided.\nPussy Palac e Oral History Project Team Members\n\nAlisha Stranges (she/her) is a quee r\, community-based\, public humanities scholar\, theatre creator\, and pe rformer. She currently serves as the LGBTQ Oral History Digital Collaborat ory’s Research Manager. Since January 2021\, she has supervised a 6-memb er team as the Project Manager and Co-Oral Historian for the Pussy Palace Oral History Project.\n\nElio Colavito (they/them) is a PhD student in the Department of History at the University of Toronto\, specializing in Sexu al Diversity Studies. As a trans non-binary researcher\, Elio’s passion lies in archiving and re-telling queer histories in Canada. They currently serve as the Co-Oral Historian for the LGBTQ Oral History Digital Collabo ratory’s Pussy Palace Oral History Project.\n\nAyo Tsalithaba (they/them ) is a visual artist\, originally from Ghana and Lesotho. Their primary me diums include film\, photography\, and illustration. Their work explores q uestions of home\, visibility\, and (un)belonging as they relate to Black queer and trans* African diasporic subjectivity. They currently serve as t he Creative Director for the LGBTQ Oral History Digital Collaboratory’s Pussy Palace Oral History Project.\n\nCommunity Narrators\n\nKaren B. K. C han (she/they) is a speaker\, trainer\, and consultant on sex education\, emotional intelligence\, and equity\, diversity\, and inclusion. In the ea rly 2000s\, she was an organizer and committee member for the Pussy Palace bathhouse events.\n\nStephanie Dutrizac (she/her) is a poly queer who mov ed to Toronto from Montreal in the late 90’s. She’s been an enthusiast ic explorer of queer sex positive spaces and community ever since. She was a repeat patron of the Palace events and was present on September 14\, 20 00\, the night the bathhouse was raided by Toronto police.\n\nNancy Irwin (she/her) is a rebel femme who occasionally fights for justice. A biker\, SM activist\, world traveler\, handy-dyke\, play party organizer. Nancy ha s published incriminating articles in the queer\, kinky and straight biker press. A switch who plays well with all genders\, she makes a living with shovels\, loaders and dump trucks.\n\nRenee R. (she/her) was a member of the Palace’s security volunteer team on September 14\, 2000\, the night the bathhouse was raided by Toronto police. She later was called as a witn ess to testify in defense of the two volunteer-organizers charged with all egedly violating the liquor license act.\n\nRobin Woodward (she/her) is a longtime maker and small business owner based in Toronto. Her favourite pr ojects combine elements of hands-on crafting\, graphic design and wordplay . She considers herself incredibly lucky to share her creative and home li ves with her wife Ange Beever\, as well as experiences of youth in an anal og era. 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