[Sex Salon] Wearing The Archive: A Queer Button Making Workshop

About Sex Salon:

The Sex Salon is a monthly speakers series organized and hosted by graduate students from the Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies, and meets on the last Wednesday of every month from 5:00 – 7:00 PM EST.

Detailed Event Description:

Dress and clothing are essential when considering the development of Queer cultural memory; fashion is a collective conversation exploring the dynamic intersections between age, time, social and relational public. Dress and style function as a visible link between the body and identity, acting as visual production in which Queerness can develop new culture and canon, circulate, and incorporate into wearable desires. As archival materials become more digitally accessible, archival practices that refuse to accept objects as frozen or untouched begin to be enacted. Fashion is a method of deeply engaging with the archive, full of primary texts, objects, and memories that one can extract what one wants and reproduce into new histories, cultures and canon.

Buttons are tactile, affective resources that can emphasize historical or current tensions, communicate desires, and demonstrate how we may perform our desires. Using The ArQuives button collection, this workshop aims to delve into these complexities and explore how we may physically and emotionally choose what memories we connect with and how we interpret digitally accessible archival materials.

Event Capacity:

This event has limited spots because of the supplies that are being purchased and provided for participants. Please only register if you plan to attend. If you register and no longer plan to attend please cancel your registration to allow others to register.

Facilitators:

Jade Nelson (They/Them), organizer and presenter

Roxy Moon (They/Them) Presenter

Location Details:

The location of this event is located at University College (15 King’s College Circle). The specific room is to be determined. The closest entrance is on the left side of Hart House Circle if you are walking north from King’s College circle. We will have volunteers at the main staircase on the first floor.

Accessibility:

Please let us know of any access needs at sds.sexsalon@gmail.com