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Ryan Conrad is an Adjunct Research Faculty member affiliated with the Feminist Institute of Social Transformation at Carleton University in Ottawa. From 2019-2021 he was a SSHRC postdoctoral fellow in Cinema & Media Studies with Archive/Counter-Archive at York University in Toronto. From 2017-2019 he was a postdoctoral fellow at the AIDS Activist History Project housed in the Sociology and Anthropology department at Carleton University. He holds a PhD from the Centre for the Interdisciplinary Study of Society and Culture at Concordia University and an MFA in interdisciplinary studio arts with a focus on film, video, and performance from the Maine College of Art.

Conrad is the co-founder of Against Equality (2009-present), a digital archive and publishing collective based in the United States and Canada. He is the editor of the collective’s anthology series that are compiled together in Against Equality: Queer Revolution, Not Mere Inclusion (2014). Most recently, he edited an anthology on the early ’90s community cable access program Toronto Living With AIDS (2024). He has also contributed single-author and co-authored chapters to several anthologies including: Queer Data Studies (2024), Between Certain Death and a Possible Future: Queer Writing on Growing up with the AIDS Crisis (2021), Queer and Trans Migrations: Dynamics of Detention, Deportation, and Illegalization (2020), Decolonizing Sexualities: Transnational Perspectives, Critical Interventions (2016) The Gay Agenda (2014), and Queering Anarchism (2013).  He is also a past Chair of the Sexuality Studies Association.

His written work has appeared in scholarly and activist publications including: American Quarterly, Women Studies Quarterly, JumpCut, Auto/Biography Studies, Canadian Journal of Film Studies, e-flux, Aparté, QED: A Journal of LGBTQ Worldmaking, Upping the Anti, Scholar & Feminist, Socialism & Democracy, Drain, We Who Feel Differently, Little Joe, UltraViolet, In These Times, TruthOut, and Fifth Estate.

His work as a visual and performing artist has exhibited internationally in Europe, Asia, and North America.

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PO Box 311 Stn B
Ottawa ON K1P6C4

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