BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.3.3//EN TZID:America/Toronto X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Toronto BEGIN:VEVENT UID:84@sds.utoronto.ca DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20220519T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20220519T160000 DTSTAMP:20220609T205026Z URL:https://sds.utoronto.ca/events/may-sex-salon-theorizing-covid-19/ SUMMARY:May Sex Salon: Theorizing COVID-19: Examining the Impacts of COVID- 19 on 2SLGBTQ+ Populations in North America”. DESCRIPTION:The Sex Salon Event Series presents "Theorizing COVID-19: Exami ning the Impacts of COVID-19 on 2SLGBTQ+ Populations in North America".\n\ nIn the two years since the World Health Organization (WHO) classified COV ID-19 as a global pandemic\, scholars across all disciplines—public heal th\, history\, sociology\, psychology\, nutritional science\, ethnic studi es\, and philosophy—have tried to reckon with the immediate and fundamen tal changes to civic life brought on by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. While the focus and methods (e.g.\, moves to online data collection) of many res earch programs have pivoted in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic\, these s hifts have not necessarily prompted scholars to rethink their approach to theory.\n\nThe ongoing COVID-19 pandemic marks a distinctive moment in tim e. To understand the impact of COVID-19 in our lives and communities\, we must queer theory\, even queer theory itself. This session brings together scholars pursuing work on 2SLGBTQ+ communities to examine how their appro aches to theory have changed during COVID-19. What new questions must we a sk in the face of this ongoing public health crisis and what critical ques tions remain unanswered? How might theory help us to conduct meaningful re search in the face of limited data on the impact of COVID-19 on queer and racialized communities and an ever-changing landscape of public health pol icy? To what extent can theory support our understanding of\, and response to\, other epidemics within our communities (e.g.\, HIV\, mental illness\ , racism).\n\nCOVID-19 has changed where and how we work\, have sex\, conn ect with loved ones\, and access healthcare. These practices are\, of cour se\, shaped by sharp social inequalities and health disparities within and beyond 2SLGBTQ+ communities. Drawing on ongoing research across several s tudies\, presenters will discuss how theory (e.g. critical race theory\, m inority stress theory\, queer theory) helps them to understand the impacts of COVID-19 on the social and sexual lives of 2SLGBTQ+ folks and the stra tegies they have used to maintain their physical\, sexual\, and mental wel lbeing during an ongoing public health crisis.\n\nABOUT OUR SPEAKERS\n\nCO RNEL GREY (Moderator)\n\nCornel Grey is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health\, University of Toronto. Cornel’s research examines how black queer men enact kinship and intimacy through physical touch. His work considers how black queer socialities challenge us to thin k differently about questions of risk\, care\, health\, and relationality. He is currently examining the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the soci al and sexual lives of gay\, bisexual and queer men.\n\nCHLOE GOLDBACH - “Resilience in the Face of Increasing Disparities: LGBTQ+ People &\; COVID-19”\n\nChloe Goldbach (she/her/hers)\, MS\, MA is a White\, lesbia n\, gray-ace\, transgender woman and PhD candidate in Counseling Psycholog y at Southern Illinois University Carbondale (SIUC). She earned a Master o f Arts in Psychology from SIUC\, and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology\, Ba chelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering\, and Master in Science in Bio medical Engineering from the University of Florida. She organizes communit y-wide events on transgender and nonbinary issues at SIUC\, serves as an a ssociate researcher of the Diversity and Rural Advocacy Group (DRAG) at Ok lahoma State University\, teaches courses on LGBTQ+ and workplace diversit y issues\, and is a therapist-in-training with a focus on serving LGBTQ+ c lients and clients with eating and body image concerns. Her research broad ly focused on trans\, nonbinary\, and LGB issues\, and she is currently co nducting research on health care access barriers\, experiences the COVID-1 9 pandemic\, transgender athletes\, and centering the voices and experienc es of transgender and nonbinary people in the treatment and conceptualizat ion of gender dysphoria.\n\nEMERICH DAROYA - “I’m cut off from my comm unity”: Perceived Harmful Effects and Deficiencies of COVID-19 Public He alth Restrictions on Canadian Gay\, Bisexual\, and other Men who have Sex with Men (GBM)"\n\nEmerich Daroya is a postdoctoral fellow at the Dalla La na School of Public Health\, University of Toronto. He received his PhD in Sociology from Carleton University\, where he wrote a dissertation on the effects of biomedical technologies in gay men’s sexual practices throug h posthumanist performative frameworks. His research interests include que er theory\, HIV/AIDS\, new materialisms\, sexuality studies\, and race/rac ism.\n\nIAN LIUJIA TIAN - “The racism I’ve received\, yes\, increasing ”: using critical race theory to understand gay\, bisexual\, and queer m en of colour’s experiences of discrimination during multiple epidemics ”\n\nIan Liujia Tian is a doctoral student at the University of Toronto\ , with interests in queer approaches to social reproduction and labor migr ation in China and beyond. His current dissertation tracks how pleasure ap pears and mediates large socioeconomic transformation and everyday life in China's rural countryside and migrant villages.\n\nNAT QUATHAMER - "Being in a Queer Time: Exploring the Influence of the COVID-19 Pandemic on LGBT Q+ Body Image"\n\nI’m Nat Quathamer (They/He/She ou Iel)\, a queer\, gre y-ace\, trans-non-binary white settler living in K’jipuktuk (so-called H alifax). I am a registered dietitian working to bring the fields of health equity\, food justice\, body liberation\, and sustainable living together . My work aspires to actively dismantle the binary discourses around food\ , health\, nutrition\, the mind and the body both within myself and with t hose I work with. Outside work\, I love to talk about music\, sourdough\, space\, embroidery\, recovery and sobriety\, and nature (especially fungi) . ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://sds.utoronto.ca/wp-content/uploads/May-S ex-Salon.jpg 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