We invite all UofT graduate students across the disciplines and fourth-year undergraduate students in SDS to apply to participate in an “experimental classroom” as part of the Bonham Centre’s annual Queer Directions event. Each year, Queer Directions features innovative developments in queer and trans studies, focusing on emerging and vital themes and critiques. This year’s topic is Queer Care and Radical Hospitality, and the classroom will be led by our symposium speakers:
Dean Spade is Associate Professor at Seattle University School of Law. He is the author of Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law (2015) and Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During this Crisis(and the next) (2020).
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is a queer, disabled, nonbinary femme poet, writer, educator, and social activist. They are the author or co-editor of nine books, including Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice, and Beyond Survival: Stories and Strategies from the Transformative Justice Movement (co-edited with Ejeris Dixon).
Hil Malatino is Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Research Associate at the Rock Ethics Institute at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of Queer Embodiment: Monstrosity, Medical Violence, and Intersex Experience (2019) and Trans Care (2020).
Savannah Shange is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at UC Santa Cruz and serves as principal faculty in Critical Race & Ethnic Studies. She is the author of Progressive Dystopia:
Abolition, Antiblackness, and Schooling in San Francisco (2019). (edited)
Abolition, Antiblackness, and Schooling in San Francisco (2019). (edited)
This is an opportunity to discuss ideas and share work with some of the most important artists, activists, and scholars in the fields of disability studies, intersectional queer and trans theory, queer and trans legal studies, and critical race theory.
The classroom will be held on Thursday, March 17, from 3pm-5pm, on Zoom.
Applications open on February 07 and close on March 07. Applicants can expect to hear back by March 11. To apply, please fill out the form below.
Applications open on February 07 and close on March 07. Applicants can expect to hear back by March 11. To apply, please fill out the form below.
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