September 20th 2018
As the school term begins again, the SDS department is excited to offer a new Special Topics course on Queer Migrations and Refugee Politics. We took a moment to ask course instructor Lynn Ly about her vision for the course …
September 17th 2018
The Centre is proud to be a co-sponsor of this event! Discover Rufus Wainwright and Daniel MacIvor’s new opera Hadrian and its place within the larger context of 21st-century opera and queer storytelling. Highlights of this one-day, interdisciplinary conference include …
September 13th 2018
The Centre’s Sexual Representation Collection is featured in this week’s Toronto Life! Inside one of Canada’s largest public porn archives U of T’s Sexual Representation Collection unpacks sexual freedom, queer visibility and the evolution of porn torontolife.com
September 7th 2018
BOOK LAUNCH FOR PROFESSOR MARI RUTI Tuesday, September 18th, 6:30PM-8:30PM Caversham Booksellers 98 Harbord Street Free – all welcome Caversham Booksellers invites you to join in celebrating the launch of Professor Mari Ruti’s two new books: Distillations: Theory, Ethics, Affect …
September 6th 2018
Harvard Education Publishing Group – Blog hepg.org
August 29th 2018
Ido Katri: Advocating for trans rights in the legal system
August 9th 2018
For anyone who is curious about our mysterious and elusive Sexual Representation Collection read a brief history and find out more about the archive’s contents, purview, and future direction in this article by Romi Levine for UofT News
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July 9th 2018
Professor Mari Ruti’s new Book Penis Envy and Other Bad Feelings was released earlier this year. At the LA Review of Books she chats with Tajja Isen and SDS/English PhD candidate Philip Sayers about love & romance, gendered expectations of …
July 6th 2018
Playwright, filmmaker, and SDS major Alec Butler addressed Scarlett Johansson’s new role as Dante (Tex) Gill, a trans man, in Rub & Tug. Butler and other trans folks and allies have expressed their disappointment in the role going to Johansson. …
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May 3rd 2018
Doctor of Juridical Science and Sexual Diversity Studies collaborative student, Ido Katri, and his research are influencing the rights of incarcerated trans communities in Israel. “Until now, the unspoken policy has been that prisoners or detainees whose gender identity was “ambiguous” should …
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