The Sexuality Studies Association has released its 2022 Conference Call for Proposals! This year we’ll be virtual once again with every intention of being back to in-person gatherings in 2023. This year’s conference marks the associations 10th anniversary and we’ve confirmed Dr. Ann Cvetkovich as our keynote speaker. We’re very excited and looking forward to hearing how she’ll assess the state of sexuality studies as an interdisciplinary field within both Canada and North America more broadly.
While my colleague Emma McKenna and I continue to work on our formal write up based on our data from the COVID-19, Social Safety Nets, and Sex Work in the Capital study done in collaboration with POWER, we have written a short accessible summary of the study with some of the main findings: that most sex workers pay their annual income taxes; and that most sex workers have navigated social safety net programs successfully. Contrary to the anecdotal stories about sex workers being excluded from new programs like the CERB and EI in Canada during the pandemic, our data suggests this was a small minority of sex workers. Sex workers are smart, savvy, and far from helpless—as researchers and allies we should stop talking about them as if they are.
I was invited to write a short reflection on the current exhibition titled “Don’t Ask, Do Tell” on display at the Stonewall National Museum and Archive in Ft. Lauderdale, FL. The piece appears in the museum’s quarterly journal Archeion, edited by curator and writer Andy Johnson. My short piece turns a critical spotlight on the colonial framing of the exhibit and thinks through some of the absences in the collection from which the exhibition is drawn. Specifically, I ask where are the queer draft dodgers, counter recruitment activists, and AIDS activists that demanded “Money for AIDS, Not for War!” who are missing from the exhibition?
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On World AIDS Day 2021, Yes! Magazine published an excerpt from my essay “Looking for Gaëtan” that appears in the new book Between Certain Death and a Possible Future: Queer Writing on Growing Up With the AIDS Crisis. The book was just published this past October and is already in its second printing. Congratulations and much thanks to Mattilda who included my piece and did an excellent job corralling together a fantastic collection of writers.
Little Joe, the fiercest queer cinema magazine, has returned after a many year hiatus and has published “An Intergenerational Dialogue on HIV/AIDS Activist Video History,” that I co-authored with John Greyson. The interview was conducted just before COVID-19 became a global pandemic and touches on our mutual interest in revisiting the Toronto artist/activist scene of the late ’80s and early ’90s to think about what lessons can be drawn from this period of explosive AIDS video activism in Canada.
Lastly, a former Concordia sexuality studies student that I taught has interviewed me as part of her internship with sexologist Dr. Jess O’Reilly. As part of this internship, Maggie has been working on the podcast program Sex with Dr. Jess. Her interview with me is titled “Sexuality: Activism, Anarchism & Academia” and covers a lot of ground in 25 minutes. Give it a listen if you want to know more about me or how I got into the field of sexuality studies.