BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/Toronto X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Toronto BEGIN:VEVENT UID:8@sds.utoronto.ca DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20191030T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191030T173000 DTSTAMP:20191017T204930Z URL:https://sds.utoronto.ca/events/sex-salon-queer-aesthetics-and-performa nce/ SUMMARY:Sex Salon: Queer Aesthetics and Performance DESCRIPTION:The Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies invites you to our monthly Sex Salon series. This month our featured panel is enti tled "Queer Aesthetics and Performance."\n\nOur panelists\, their presenta tion titles and abstracts can be found below:\n\n1) Julia Matias (Drama\, Theatre\, and Performance Studies\, University of Toronto) \n\nTroubling N ostalgia: Viva Las Vegas Rockabilly Weekender and The Figure of the “Exo tic Other” in Contemporary Burlesque Performance \n\nViva Las Vegas is t he largest annual rockabilly festival worldwide. "Rockabilly" refers to an early style of rock music originated by white musicians in the America So uth popularized in the 1950s. However\, in its contemporary context\, "roc kabilly" extends beyond the musical genre and is more commonly used to des cribe a unique subculture interested in midcentury Americana\, including b urlesque striptease. Yet as a form that derives itself from white American culture\, rockabilly in the 21st century has had to contend with many of the problematic racist aspects of its predecessor. My presentation will ad dress how neo-burlesque artists who perform at Viva Las Vegas have navigat ed the pressure to perform acts that promote racial and ethnic fetishism t hrough the creation of "exoticism" onstage.\n\n2) Roshaya Rodness (English and Critical Theory\, McMaster University) \n\nHard Road Ahead: Stone’s Queer Agency in Stone Butch Blues\n\nWhat does it mean to get hard? I put this question to Leslie Feinberg’s monumental Stone Butch Blues (1993) with a view to the stones and stone-like objects that animate the rich aff ective and relational specificity of Feinberg’s stone butches. Now almos t thirty\nyears after its release\, at a time when stone butch sexuality i s considered outmoded or historical\, I return to this important text to a ttend to its hard or obdurate materials and their inherent mutability as a source of language and theory for the recessive energies and inexpressive appeal that characterize “stony” life in 1950s Buffalo. Stones\, I ar gue\, point towards temporal orientations that resist historicization and insist upon the existence of stone butch sexuality “yet to come.” The animacies of stone and stoniness attune us to frequently pathologized mode s of expression and types of queer being that we may wish to rediscover in the present.\n\n3) Jess D. Lundy (Women and Gender Studies\, Carleton Uni versity) \n\nServing each other: Sharing Economies and Affective Labour in Montreal's Kiki Scene \n\nAgainst a tense socio-political backdrop of whi te supremacy\, intensifying pressures of neoliberal fiscal austerity\, and queer necropolitics\, ‘Serving each Other: Sharing economies and emotio nal labour in Montréal’s Kiki scene’ addresses performance-based acti vist forms of place-making for urban-based queer and gender nonconforming communities of colour. Using participant observation and qualitative inter views with pioneering members of Montréal’s Kiki scene (a sub-category of the ballroom tradition) and Ottawa’s emerging Whacking community and interpreting my findings through the theoretical lens of queer of colour t heory\, critical whiteness studies\, queer Latinx performance studies/ Chi cana feminism\, I argue that Kiki House subculture\, which is maintained b y pedagogical processes of ‘each one\, teach-one’\, is instrumental in facilitating and encouraging i) life-affirming\, confidence building quee r kinship bonds\, (ii) non-capitalist economies of sharing (both material and affective) between members of this unique underground counterculture\, and iii) hopeful strategies of individual coping mechanisms and community resilience during these economically tumultuous and necropolitical times. \n\nChair: Ryan Persadie (Women and Gender Studies\, University of Toronto )\n\nRyan Persadie is a PhD student in Women and Gender Studies at the Uni versity of Toronto. He holds a MA in Ethnomusicology and Sexual Diversity Studies from the University of Toronto. His doctoral research investigates the interrelations of soca and chutney music\, queer diasporic Carnival g eographies in Canada and the US\, queer Indo-Afro Caribbean intimacies\, a nd LGBTQI+ identity formation\, performance and embodiment across\, betwee n and within Indo-Caribbean diasporas.\n\nLocation: University College\, U niversity of Toronto\, Room 253 \n\nDue to the UC Revitalization Project C onstruction\, there will be no wheelchair-accessible entrance to Universit y College until further notice. Since the UC Quad is a high-traffic constr uction area during the project\, the entry must be restricted as a safety precaution. We hope to have accessible entrance re-opened as soon as possi ble. If you plan to attend Sex Salon and need accessibility assistance\, p lease notify the event organizers at sds.sexsalon@gmail.com to arrange an escort through the construction zone.\n\nFor information on all constructi on-related closures and a list of available entrances\, please visit: http s://www.uc.utoronto.ca/uc-under-construction ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://sds.utoronto.ca/wp-content/uploads/72083 197_2406163322991233_9068689773236846592_o.jpg 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