BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.2//EN TZID:America/Toronto X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Toronto BEGIN:VEVENT UID:70@sds.utoronto.ca DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20220318T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20220318T183000 DTSTAMP:20220318T182208Z URL:http://sds.utoronto.ca/events/queer-directions-symposium-2022-queer-ca re-and-radical-hospitality/ SUMMARY:Postponed: Queer Directions Symposium 2022: Queer Care and Radical Hospitality DESCRIPTION:***IMPORTANT NOTE: This event has been postponed until further notice. Please read this note from the Director for further information. W e apologize for the inconvenience.\n\n-----\nQueer Directions is an annua l event hosted by the Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies\, whose m andate is to feature major developments in queer and trans studies\, foc using on vital themes and emerging critiques. This year’s topic is Queer Care and Radical Hospitality and seeks to ask a series of pressing questi ons: how can people on the fringes of mainstream economies collectively ac cess resources that normative practices of care keep them from? How can we form networks of care that create racial\, economic\, and disability just ice? How do trans studies\, intersectional queer theory\, and critical rac e theory provide us with the histories\, theories\, and material practices we need to address and transform the current crisis of everyday life? Our guest speakers are: Dean Spade\, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha\, Hil M alatino\, and Savannah Shange.\n\nThis event will be held as a Zoom webina r on March 18th 2022\, 4:30pm - 6:30pm EST. Live captions will be availabl e and ASL is available upon request. Please contact sexual.diversity@utoro nto.ca with any access requests. Queer Directions 2022 is co-sponsored by the Centre for Global Disability Studies at the University of Toronto Scar borough. You can find more information about the Centre here.\nRegistratio n through Zoom is required for access to the webinar. \n\n\n\nDean Spade i s Associate Professor at Seattle University School of Law. He is the autho r of Normal Life: Administrative Violence\, Critical Trans Politics\, and the Limits of Law (2015) and Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During this C risis (and the next) (2020). In 2002\, Spade founded the Sylvia Rivera Law Project\, a collective organization focused on providing free legal servi ces\, engaging in impact litigation\, and building community organizing le d by and for trans and gender nonconforming people who are low-income and/ or people of color. In 2016\, he co-founded Big Door Brigade\, a collectiv e organized around the significance of mutual aid as a strategy for surviv al and mobilization.\n\nLeah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is a queer\, disa bled\, nonbinary femme poet\, writer\, educator\, and social activist.  T hey are the author or co-editor of nine books\, including Dirty River: A Q ueer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home\, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice\, and Beyond Survival: Stories and Strategies from the Transforma tive Justice Movement (co-edited with Ejeris Dixon). They are the 2020 rec ipient of the Lambda Literary 2020 Jeanne Córdova Prize for Lesbian/Queer Nonfiction recognizing “a lifetime of work documenting the complexity o f queer experience.” They are also the recipient of the 2020 Ford Founda tion’s Disability Futures Fellowship.\n\nHil Malatino is Assistant Profe ssor of Women’s\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies and Research Associate at the Rock Ethics Institute at Pennsylvania State University. He is the a uthor of Queer Embodiment: Monstrosity\, Medical Violence\, and Intersex E xperience (2019)\, which examines the relationship between intersex embodi ment\, biomedical technologies\, and the forms of subjectivity both enable d and constrained by the medicalization of gender non-conformance. His sec ond book\, Trans Care (2020)\, offers a critical intervention in how care labor and care ethics have been thought\, arguing that dominant modes of c onceiving and critiquing the politics and distribution of care entrench no rmative and cis-centric familial structures and gendered arrangements.\n\n Savannah Shange is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at UC Santa Cruz an d serves as principal faculty in Critical Race &\; Ethnic Studies. She is the author of Progressive Dystopia: Abolition\, Antiblackness\, and Sch ooling in San Francisco (2019)\, which sees San Francisco as a social labo ratory for how Black communities survive the end of their worlds and argue s for abolition over progressive reform as the needed path toward Black fr eedom. The book was the winner of the 2020 Gregory Bateson Book Prize from the Society of Cultural Anthropology. Her research interests include gent rification\, multiracial coalition\, ethnographic ethics\, and Black femme gender. She is the author of multiple articles published in Transforming Anthropology\, The Black Scholar\, and Women &\; Society. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://sds.utoronto.ca/wp-content/uploads/Queer- Care-Postponed.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Toronto X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Toronto BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20220313T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR