Between Certain Death and a Possible Future: Queer Writing on Growing Up with the AIDS Crisis is out October 5th 2021. My contribution to the book, “Looking for Gaëtan,” reflects on my childhood growing up alongside a plethora of film and media depictions of both HIV/AIDS and queer culture, and how these moving-image representations shaped my understanding of, and relationship to HIV/AIDS as a non-urban queer white kid growing up in the ’80s and ’90s. I’ll be participating in a few virtual book launch events with anthology’s editor Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore and a number of other incredible contributors to this volume. On October 14th at 7pm will be Zooming with the Harvard Book Store in Boston and November 1st as part of the Ottawa International Writers Festival.
Emma McKenna and I are finishing up our research collaboration with folks at POWER and we will be launching the COVID-19, Social Safety Nets, and Sex Work in the Capital Report in November. This report will discuss the findings from our survey of nearly 300 sex workers in Ottawa-Gatineau last spring. The survey focused on how COVID-19 impacted sex workers’ working conditions and how sex workers navigated new and existing social safety net programs.
A few weeks ago I began teaching in person again at Carleton University’s Pauline Jewett Institute. This academic year I’m teaching the two semester long first year seminar course titled Intro to LGBTQ Studies that I developed and taught last year for the first time. The course was redeveloped over the summer in collaboration with a student from the previous cohort and I’m excited to see how teaching it again with a new and improved syllabus pans out.
I assumed a leadership position within the Sexuality Studies Association last summer as the Chair of the Steering Committee. In this role over the next two years I will work with the rest of the Steering Committee to further professionalize the organization and build the necessary internal structures to 
leave the organization stronger than when I joined. I’m hopeful for the organization’s future and for a return to in-person annual conferences health guidelines permitting.
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