Queer Directions Experimental Classroom

The Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies invites all UofT graduate students across the disciplines 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 theme is Trans & Queer Resistance with speakers Karma Chávez, Charlene A. Caruthers, Sayan Bhattacharya, and Emi Koyama. This symposium will take place on March 6, and focuses on creative, intellectual, activist, and grassroots organizing traditions and social justice and movement work that both addresses the ongoing harms and material violences of everyday life, but also organizes toward and imagines the possibility for queer, trans, black, brown, and indigenous lifeworlds. Our esteemed panelists will join us to raise similar questions, press on other ones, and bring their own work to bear on what it means to do this work now.

The experimental classroom will take place one day prior to the public event on Thursday March 5 from 3PM to 5PM, and serves as a space where students can collectively explore these questions with the speakers. Those invited to participate will have the opportunity to converse and engage with these questions both alongside our invited speakers and with each other.

Space is limited and decisions regarding acceptance will be made based on the relevance of applicant’s research and interest to the larger theme.

Note: The experimental classroom is a separate event from the main Queer Directions for UofT graduate students and upper-year SDS undergrads. Those interested in our main event must register separately on Eventbrite.