BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.3.1//EN TZID:America/Toronto X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Toronto BEGIN:VEVENT UID:13@sds.utoronto.ca DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20190315T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20190315T180000 DTSTAMP:20220516T192311Z URL:https://sds.utoronto.ca/events/queer-directions-symposium-trans-format ions-2/ SUMMARY:Queer Directions Symposium - Trans/Formations DESCRIPTION:A recording of the event is now available on the Bonham Centre ’s Youtube Channel.\n\nhttps://youtu.be/00PuMlJ3Giw\n\n \;\n\nThe Bo nham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies invites you to join us for the th ird annual Queer Directions Symposium!  This year’s event is entitled T rans/Formations\, with guest speakers C. Riley Snorton\, Aren Aizura\, Mor gan M. Page\, Alok Vaid-Menon\, and respondent Trish Salah. It will be hel d in the Jackman Law Building\, Bennett Hall P120. This event is free and open to the public. \n\n Riley Snorton (he/him)\n\nRiley Snorton is a Pr ofessor of English Language and Literature at the University of Chicago. H e specializes in queer and transgender theory and history\, critical race studies\, performance studies\, and popular culture studies. He is the aut hor of Nobody Is Supposed to Know: Black Sexuality on the Down Lowand Bl ack on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity\, winner of the Lamb da Literary Award for Transgender Nonfiction\, the American Library Associ ation Stonewall Honor Book in Nonfiction\, the American History Associatio n John Boswell Prize and the Modern Language Association William Sanders S carborough Prize. The book draws together an archive ranging from early se xological studies to fugitive slave narratives and twentieth-century journ alist accounts of Black trans people to make a compelling case for the way s that blackness and transness co-constituted one another in their histori cal construction. Snorton has been a recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship at the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Ce nter for Research in Black Culture\, an Andrew W. Mellon postdoctoral fell owship at Pomona College\, and two fellowships at Harvard’s W.E.B. Du Bo is Institute for African and African American Research.\n\nAren Aizura (he /him)\n\nAren Aizura is Assistant Professor in Gender\, Women and Sexualit y Studies at the University of Minnesota\, where he specializes in queer t heory\, transgender studies\, transnationality and immigration\, political economy and labour.  Aizura’s research looks at how queer and transgen der bodies shape and are shaped by technologies of race\, gender\, transna tionality\, medicalization\, and political economy.  His book\, Mobile S ubjects: Travel\, Transnationality\, and Transgender Lives (Duke Universit y Press 2018) examines how understandings of race\, gender\, and aesthetic s shape global cosmetic surgery cultures and how economic and racially str atified marketing and care work create the ideal transgender subject as an implicitly white\, global citizen. In so doing\, he shows how understandi ngs of travel and mobility depend on the historical architectures of colon ialism and contemporary patterns of global consumption and labour.\n\nMorg an M. Page (she/her)\n\nMorgan M. Page is a trans writer and artist in Lon don\, England.  She is the creator and host of One From the Vaults\, the first and only trans history podcast\, the founder of TWAT Fest (Trans Wom en’s Arts Toronto)\, and author of numerous articles and chapters on tra ns culture\, including “Brazen: The Trans Women’s Safer Sex Guide.” Her video work includes “Love Positive Women\,” “Last Words At The F all Of The Transsexual Empire\,” and “Treat You Like a Lady.” One Fr om the Vaults has been running since January 2016 and seeks to make trans histories accessible beyond the archive and the academy.  As Page puts it \, One From the Vaults “bring[s] you all the dirt\, gossip\, and glamour from trans history!”\n\nAlok Vaid-Menon (they/them)\n\nAlok Vaid-Menon is a gender non-conforming performance artist\, writer\, educator\, activi st\, and style icon.  They use their poetry\, performance\, and eclectic fashion to challenge the gender binary and celebrate gender non-conformity .  In 2015\, with Janani Balasubramanian\, they created DarkMatter\, a sp oken word performance duo.  They have performed and been invited to speak around the world.  In their 2017 poetry chapbook\, Femme in Public\, on social media\, and in numerous online articles and interviews they embrace radical vulnerability and celebrate a complex vision of transfemininity t hat disobeys conventional notions of gender performance and embodiment.\n\ nTrish Salah (she/her)\n\nTrish Salah is Associate Professor in Gender Stu dies at Queen’s University.  Her work focuses on transnational studies in gender\, sexuality\, race\, and minority cultural production. Her curre nt SSHRC funded research project\, Towards a Trans Minor Literature\, exam ines the aesthetic and political projects of trans\, transsexual\, genderq ueer\, and two-spirit writers. She was co-organizer of the Writing Trans G enres: Emergent Literatures and Criticism and Decolonizing and Decriminali zing Trans Genres conferences\, and is the author of two books of poetry\, Lyric Sexology\, Vol. 1. and Wanting in Arabic\, for which she won a Lamb da Literary Award.  She was a finalist for the 2018 Ogilvie Prize for LGB TQ Emerging Writers nd recently co-edited a special issue of TSQ: Transgen der Studies Quarterly on Trans Cultural Production. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://sds.utoronto.ca/wp-content/uploads/Trans _Formations-Final-Draft.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Toronto X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Toronto BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20190310T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR