I’m neck deep in committee work with the Sexuality Studies Association as we prepare to launch our new bilingual website and call for proposals for our 2019 annual meeting at the Social Sciences and Humanities Congress. I should be finished with the french translation of the CFP by the end of October and it will be posted to both our website and facebook group. This year’s conference will be held at University of British Columbia in Vancouver the first week of June and transgender, indigenous, sex worker activist Jamie Lee Hamilton will be presenting our keynote lecture.
I’m putting the final touches on my article, “The Cost of Erotic Touch: Sex Work, Migration, and Employment Regulation in Canada” before submitting it to a sexuality studies journal in the coming month. I presented this as a work-in-progress at both the Othered Senses workshop at Concordia University and at the Law, Culture, and Humanities conference at Georgetown Law, both earlier this year. This paper analyzes the new legal regime imposed at Immigration Refugee and Citizenship Canada for temporary foreign workers in relationship to commercial sexual industries and investigates the media portrayals of migrant sex workers that impact the popular imagination regarding who is and isn’t a migrant sex worker.
I’ve added my signature to an open letter to parliament, “Bill C-75: Joint Statement on the repeal of Criminal Code laws used against LGBTQ2S+ people and sex workers.” This statement calls into question the limited provisions to make amendments to the Criminal Code regarding the sexual minority communities it currently criminalizes (queers, sex workers, HIV-positive people). To learn more about Bill C-75 as it winds its way through parliament, check out this statement from gay and lesbian historians published earlier this summer and/or keep an eye here.
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I was involved in two sex-work related curatorial projects this summer in Ottawa. I hosted a Sex Worker Social & Film Screening at SAW Video in collaboration with MAX Ottawa as well as curating and performing in the Rent Boy 101 edition of monthly literary salon Naked Boys Reading Ottawa. The film screening included George Stamos‘ short documentary Our Bodies Our Business (2016) and Gwendolyn’s NFB-funded animated short Prowling by Night (1990). Naked Boys Reading selections included reading from the works of Canadian activists/artists like Danny Cockerline, Andrew Sorfleet, and Daniel Allen Cox, as well as some qpoc memoirs from Craig Seymour and Abdellah Taïa, and of course some scholarly writing from me, Thierry Schaffauser, and the one and only Samuel Delany. Photo from backstage by Handsome Zac
For the second year I will guest lecture at McGill in the introduction to sexual and gender diversity studies course. I’ll be be giving a lecture titled “HIV/AIDS: Social, Cultural, and Scientific Aspects of the Pandemic in Canada,” and sharing my own particular insights from working on the AIDS Activist History Project at Carleton for the last year and a half. Alexis Shotwell (from AAHP) and I will also be co-presenting at the American Studies Association annual conference in Atlanta in November as well. Our paper, “Counting the Placebo Dead: Early AIDS Activism with and against Placebo-Based Drug Trials,” is based on our research at AAHP on early treatment activism in Canada.
Lastly, after my Banting application at York was quashed by an internal evaluation committee, I’ve reworked the application for the general SSHRC-funded postdoctoral fellow pool. I’ll still be doing work on the cable-access television series Toronto Living with AIDS if the proposal is accepted, but the project is much more humble in its outputs.