Sex Salon is a monthly speaker series organized and hosted by graduate students from the Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies. Each month, Sex Salon invites scholars, both graduate students and faculty, to present new and in-process work and engage in discussion with guests and colleagues. Participants come from both the University of Toronto and the wider academic community across Canada and the US. Each month features two to four presentations around a central theme that relates to sexual diversity studies, followed by a Q&A based discussion lead by a member of the Sex Salon programming committee. The event is free to attend and typically held on the last Thursday of the month in University College. Calls for participants go out over the summer.
Archive
2021-22
June: Reflections on Queer/Asia/Canada
May: Theorizing COVID-19: Examining the Impacts of COVID-19 on 2SLGBTQ+ Populations in North America
April: Talking Sex: Engaging with the Pussy Palace Oral Histories
March: Thinking with and Across Burlesque
February: Hot Tub Streams & Wet Media Dreams
2020-21
February: Poz & Hi in COVID-19: An HIV Research Red Table Talk
March: The Museo de Machistán: Creating an Archive and Digital Exhibit of Mexican Lesbian Nightlife
December: Touching Death: Theorizing Black Queer Afterlife in Times of COVID-19
2019-20
January: Sex Salon Workshop: Queer, Trans, Suburban
February: Queer/Latinx/Mexican
October: Queer Aesthetics and Performance
November: Queer, Creole, Contested: Caribbean Archives Reimagined
2018-19
January: A Queer Kind of Place
November: Unlikely Bonds: Desis, Butches, and Ghosts
2017-18
October: Migration works? Shaping and Reshaping Materialities and Identities
November: Performing Time and Space
2016-17
November: Fetishization and Race
2015-16
January: “Speaking” Sex to Power: Pedagogies of Intimacy and Epistemologies of Touch
February: Homonationalism and Transnational Sexual Politics
April: Outside the Lines: Queer Art and Activism
September: From The Margins: Race, Ageing, and Queer Temporality
October: Citizenship, Migration, and Violence
November: Asexualities, Hypersexualities, and Maximum Visibility
