Ryan Conrad

My article “Cable Access Queer: Revisiting Toronto Living With AIDS (1990-91)” is finally out in the “Queer TV” special issue of the open-access media journal Jump Cut. This piece provides insight into how the extraordinary TLWA program came to be, how it was received by various imagined publics, how it ended, and why revisiting this series is useful for today’s video activists. I will also launch a public-facing research website with Vtape over the summer that will include transcripts of interviews I conducted with surviving contributors to TLWA, short commissioned reflections on each of the tapes in the series by contemporary activists and artists, and lots of visuals in the form of frame grabs and digitized ephemera. In a similar vein, I’ll also be conducting a two week summer school workshop series on Canadian HIV/AIDS film and video research from June 8th – 17th, 2021 as part of my continued work with Archive/Counter-Archive.

This June I will assume the role of Chair of the Sexuality Studies Association‘s Steering Committee for a two year term after having served as Vice Chair the previous two years. This year we have joined the BCSA-led boycott of Congress and will be hosting our own independent gathering June 1-3.  More details on that will be forthcoming on SSA’s website in the coming weeks.

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I’ve been invited to participate in the “Sex and the Pandemic” lecture series organized by Ricky Varghese. I’ll be giving my talk, “Distinct and Dissimilar: COVID-19, HIV, and the Desire for Meaning” alongside Rinaldo Walcott’s paper “Open to Infection: Two Viruses and Black-Queer-Life” on May 21, 2021. For more information about the series and subsequent monthly lectures, check out the details here.

Emma McKenna and I have submitted our chapter, “Lessons Learned, Lessons Shared: Doing Research in Collaboration with Sex Workers and Sex Worker Organizations” to the forthcoming anthology titled Facilitating Community Research for Social Change: Case Studies in Qualitative, Arts-Based and Visual Research edited by Casey Burkholder, Funke Aladejebi, and Joshua Schwab Cartas. This chapter outlines our collaboration with folks at POWER on an ongoing research project about the impact of COVID-19 on sex workers in Ottawa-Gatineau and their ability to access state benefits during the pandemic.

In addition to finishing up teaching sexuality studies courses at Carleton and Concordia University this winter/spring, I also joined a number of other classes to give guest lectures on various topics related to my research: University of Ottawa (Sex Work), Concordia University (Queer Theory), and York University (Research Methods). I also joined a panel sharing my postdoc experience along with a few other postdoctoral fellows at Carleton University for graduate students thinking of applying for one.

On World AIDS Day 2020 I was interviewed by my colleague (and project lead for Archive/Counter-Archive) Janine Marchessault. The interview is part of the Talking Archives series where scholars discuss their archival research conducted as part of A/C-A. In the video below you’ll hear me discussing my work researching the Toronto Living With AIDS (1990-91) community cable program spearheaded by video artists Michael Balser and John Greyson with the support of Vtape and Trinity Square Video.

 

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Much of this research will be published as a journal article in the upcoming special issue of JumpCut on “Queer TV”. My research contextualizes, historicizes, and analyses the TLWA series through oral history interviews I conducted with the surviving contributors as well as through examining archival documents (press clippings, posters, letters, press releases).  The article will go to press this winter with over 80 stills and digitized ephemera accompanying the text.

My colleagues in Criminology at University of Ottawa, Emma McKenna and Chris Bruckert, and I were awarded a grant to do a research project in collaboration with POWER on the impact of COVID-19 on sex workers in the Capital region. Specifically we will be talking with sex workers about how their exclusion or perceived exclusion from social safety nets have negatively impacted their lives, as well as the mutual aid strategies they have employed.  More on this project in January!

My article “Generated Vulnerability: Male Sex Workers, Third-Party Platforms, & Data Security” was accepted for publication as part of a forthcoming anthology from University of Washington Press edited by Patrick Keilty entitled Queer Data. My piece documents the inherent vulnerabilities when working through third-party websites like Rentboy and Rentmen and possible alternatives to these unaccountable and exploitative corporate entities. I take up Ottawa Independent Companions as an example of sex worker self-organizing in the face of exploitation. OIC is one of the first large-scale all-gender sex worker-owned cooperatives that emerged after the 2013 Supreme court of Canada ruling that struck down Canada’s anti-prostitution laws. The anthology is due out in late 2021.

Back in November, shortly after the US election I gave a talk at the University of Southern Maine as part of their LGBTQ+ community dialogue series. The program was organized through the LGBTQ Special Collections at the Jean Byers Sampson Center for Diversity where I did much of my doctoral research. I presented a paper on Maine’s drawn out statewide and municipal referenda regarding sexual orientation-inclusive non-discrimination laws and by-laws through a close reading of Maine’s gay and lesbian periodicals published throughout the 1990s.

I’ve also just concluded Fall teaching at both Carleton where I am teaching the first year seminar Introduction to LGBTQ Studies and Concordia where I am teaching Introduction to Theories of Sexuality. I will continue teaching the same course at Carleton for the Winter semester while I will teach a second offering of the Theories course at Concordia this Winter as well.

My chapter on HIV/AIDS and immigration in Canada is due out this October in Eithne Luibhéid and Karma Chavez’s new anthology Queer and Trans Migrations: Dynamics of Illegalization, Detention, and Deportation. This chapter examines my own experience immigrating to Canada alongside an analysis of Canada’s medical inadmissibility/excessive demand clause that bars people with disabilities and most medical conditions, including HIV, from immigrating to Canada.

This summer I facilitated a panel discussion on immigration and male sex workers following a screening of the short film Marco (2019). The event was organized by MAX Ottawa for Capital Pride and included Josh from MAX and Elene from Butterfly. Josh and I have also co-authored a soon-to-be-released report titled On the Move based on a needs assessment conducted pre-COVID by MAX for guys who do sex work in the Quebec-Montreal-Ottawa-Toronto corridor. Many canadian generic cialis online service provider offer fast Kamagra delivery in UK. Even men over 70 can also get erection with single dose of the tablets. cost of cialis To take the maximum effect of Kamagra, it should be taken with full large glass of soft cialis online water and prior to one hour of intended sex. cialis canada You can monitor your blood pressure by using a monitor at home and by consulting your doctor. We’ll be presenting this report at the Community-Based Research Centre’s 2020 virtual Summit in November. Through this work I’ve also joined the multi-city advisory board for developing programming based on the needs assessment.

Friend and colleague Emma McKenna and I have submitted our piece “Beyond Social Safety Nets: COVID-19, Sex Workers, and Universal Basic Income’s Equitable Base” for publication. Along with Chris Bruckert we also applied for a grant to do a research project on sex worker mutual aid organizing in Ottawa-Gatineau during COVID-19 in collaboration with our pals at POWER.

Since late April I’ve been involved in efforts to support sex workers in Ottawa-Gatineau during the COVID crisis. I’ve helped raise funds for the POWER Emergency Relief Fund and fielded numerous media requests (1, 2) as the Media Spokesperson for the group. This experience led me to co-author an article on sex workers’ exclusion from social safety nets like the Canadian Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) and the necessity to both decriminalize sex work while also instituting a universal basic income guarantee with my colleague Emma McKenna.  “Beyond Social Safety Nets: COVID-19, Sex Workers, and Universal Basic Income’s Equitable Base” will be published online in a few weeks. In the mean time, check out Butterfly’s migrant sex workers and COVID-19 report.

The Sexuality Studies Association held its virtual AGM in early June, welcoming new members to the Steering Committee and thanking those outgoing. Type 3 CRS consists of an abrupt worsening of renal function (such as blood non protein nitrogen, combining power of CO2 and phenol red test). prescription de cialis In this case, a side effects viagra pill offered by Epillserx.com meets the exact same standards required by the manufacturer (Pfizer) of the brand name product (cialis). As per the recent viagra generico cialis research which was regarding how many people used which pill for the disorder of erectile dysfunction smacks bundles of woes in one’s personal life. They will be more likely to continue healthy and pain free. viagra sale mastercard While we were not able to hold our conference face-to-face this year, we still produced a beautiful conference program to keep members up to date on what one another are doing in the field.  Much thanks to Mark Lipton for the endless work on the program and to Carol Dauda for her years of service as the Program Coordinator.

I’ve been forging ahead with a few writing projects with forthcoming coming pieces in Montreal’s lurid fagazine Crooked on archival research, finding pornography in the library, and HIV/AIDS and sex worker activist Danny Cockerline. My other piece, “Looking for Gaëtan” will appear in Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore‘s forthcoming anthology Between Certain Death and a Possible Future: Queer Writing on Growing up with the AIDS Crisis.  There’s a few more ambitious writing projects in the queue for the fall, so stay tuned!

Lastly, I’ll be teaching at Carleton and Concordia for the 2020-2021 academic year, primarily online. At Carleton I’m developing a new First Year Seminar Introduction to LGBTQ Studies at the Pauline Jewett Institute for Women and Gender Studies. At Concordia I’ll be returning as adjunct faculty in the Interdisciplinary Studies in Sexuality program at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute, teaching one of the major’s foundational courses Introduction to Theories of Sexuality.

The COVID-19 pandemic has cancelled many upcoming conferences, in-person teaching, research travel, and research with human subjects, putting many of us on pause and delivering course content through cumbersome and disadvantageous online tools.  While most of these cancellations have been stressful and career-disrupting, I’m happy for the slow down. Many of us in academia are overworked, underpaid, and on precarious contract-to-contract work like myself. Finding time to read and write while also fulfilling obligations of part-time teaching and research contracts often leads me to put my own work on hold. In the coming months I’ll be refocusing on my own writing, returning to pieces that have been percolating for years that never got the undivided attention they needed to finally be published. I’ll wrap up teaching the foundational research methods course for the Interdisciplinary Studies in Sexuality program at Concordia through online teaching tools, but then it’s back to writing more or less full-time.

I am also putting some of my newfound time and energy into editing footage I shot in January for a short experimental video on sero-discordant relationships. With more potential remedies on the market than ever, impotence is a highly treatable issue in all age groups. commander cialis In most cases, poor circulation and other issues related to sexual health in elder men. viagra wholesale Be careful driving or operating machinery until you know how 4frontimports.com viagra spain affects you. viagra may cause dizziness or faintness in some patients. LifeSkills4Kids has viagra properien used weighted therapy for many years. While most tropes about these types of relationships revolve around a young naive HIV-negative risk-taker and an older wiser HIV-positive teacher, I’m interested in the reverse relationship that mirrors my own experience (younger and poz with older and neg). My collaborator and I are trying to think through the difference in meaning the two of us attach to HIV in our lives, how it impacts our relationship, and how HIV feels along uncommon generational lines.

My manuscript proposal for the Queer Film Classic series edited by Tom Waugh and Matthew Hays on Lizzie Borden’s groundbreaking sex worker film Working Girls (1986) was accepted and will be forthcoming in 2022. I am very excited to be writing about one of my favourite films of all time and to bring greater attention to this brilliant feminist indie film. Much ink has been spilled on Borden’s first feminist dystopian sci-fi film Born in Flames (1983), while less attention has focused on her second feature film. My small monograph will fill that gap in sustained scholarly attention.

I’ve begun doing one-on-one in-person interviews with past contributors to the 1990-1991 cable-access community television show Toronto Living With AIDS as part of my book research. So far I’ve spoken with John Greyson, Richard Fung, and Kaspar Saxena. I’m setting up interviews with other contributors for the spring and I’ve already ransacked the organizational archives of Vtape and Trinity Square Video. I’m hopeful about publishing a definitive history of the series some time in 2020.  There’s also talk, through the Archive/Counter-Archive project of launching some sort of Toronto Living with HIV/AIDS series reboot in 2020.  Stay tuned!

This coming semester I’ll be guest lecturing at Brock University in Dr. Emma McKenna‘s labour studies course focusing on sex work/ers.  I’ll be doing a lecture on the crossover between queer, sex worker, and HIV/AIDS activism in Canada, focusing in particular on the work of the Prostitutes’ Safe Sex Project and under-recognized activist Danny Cockerline. I’ll be teaching Andy Sorfleet’s writing (Busting Sex Work Stigma: You Can’t Catch HIV from Money) and screening George Stamos’ brilliant short doc Our Bodies Our Business (2016) on sex worker activism at the Montreal International AIDS conference in 1989. Video still of Danny and Valerie Scott from OBOB to the right.

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After launching the Research Repository (RR) with POWER folks this fall, I’m working on a systematic review of sex work research in/on Canada since PEPCA in December 2014. I’m interested to see what kind of research is being done, by whom, and to what ends. As sex workers are one of the most over-surveilled, overly criminalized, and misunderstood group of people, the type of research being done has the potential of fuelling already devastating social policy and further entrench various long-held stigmas. Other writing projects will likely come out of the RR committee of POWER after we meet early in the new year.

My review of Malynnda Johnson’s 2018 HIV on TV book review should be out any day now in the Canadian Journal of Film Studies (Vol. 28, No. 2).  While the book is worth checking out, my review points out a few epistemological gaps worth further investigation.  The book is prohibitively expensive, so definitely encourage your library to order a copy if you’re interested.

From August 16th-25th my new video Don’t Believe the Hype was on view as part of Knot Projections 2019: Imagining Publics in Ottawa. I organized a panel during Capital Pride with Tom Hooper, Ummni Khan, and Darrah Teitel to reflect on the video and the context of the 1969 Criminal Code reform that my video focuses on.  News coverage has appeared in the Ottawa Citizen, CBC’s All in a Day, and La Rotonde. In November, the Toronto Queer Film Fest (TQFF) and the concurrent Stonewall 50: The Future of Global Queer Liberation Art & Media symposium will be screening the video and hosting another panel with Andil Gosine, Tom Hooper, and Emma McKenna.

On September 12th a group of activists re-launched Prostitutes of Ottawa-Gatineau Work Educate Resist (POWER). As part of my contribution to the group I helped organize and launch POWER’s Research Repository, a clearing house of Canadian-focused sex work research that has been published in the aftermath of the Conservative’s Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act (Bill C-36). MAX Ottawa has also hired a new male sex worker outreach staff member based on the work plan recommendations I made late last spring. Between POWER and MAX things are getting organized in Ottawa-Gatineau!  POWER even had a contingent at Capital Pride in August where I gleefully shamed Liberals for doing nothing about Bill C-36 with a majority in Parliament after voting as a block against it while in opposition.

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My Upping the Anti interview with Gary Kinsman (Against the Mythologies of the 1969 Criminal Code Reform: An Interview with Gary Kinsman) and my contribution to the QED forum on remembering Stonewall (I Still Hate New Year’s Day) should be live any day now. Although they were intended for a summer time audience of pride season readers and were written this past spring, academic publishing timelines have thwarted a timely release of both.

The Sexuality Studies Association‘s annual conference CFP will be available soon along with information about next year’s conference at Western University in London, Ontario in late spring 2020. It will be our first year awarding the Thomas Waugh Emerging Scholar Award and there are lots of exciting events already in the works.  Stay tuned!

I’ll be giving a number of talks this academic year so keep an eye out for me at: Ruderman Conference on Cartography (10-12 October); Nat Taylor Tuesdays Lecture Series at York (16 November); and guest lectures at McMaster University (30 September), UC Berkeley (15 October), and Brock University (winter semester).

This June I began a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship in Cinema & Media Studies at York University where I will be working with Janine Marchessault and John Greyson. My project entitled Excavating Technologies of Cultural Memory: Mining Canada’s AIDS Activist Video Archive was funded for two years. During this time I will be completing my manuscript, Radical VIHsion: Canadian AIDS Film & Video, and working on the HIV/AIDS activist video case study that is part of the Archive/Counter-Archive initiative.

As part of the Anti-69 Network that came out of the Anti-69 Symposium at Carleton University this spring, I have been up to a number of things:  I put out a graphic spoofing the Canadian Mint’s bizarre “Equality” coin, participated in a panel at Ottawa Art Gallery for 50th Anniversary of Action Canada alongside Tom Hooper and Carolyn Egan, and conducted an interview with long-time queer troublemaker Gary Kinsman for the forthcoming issue (#21) of Upping the Anti.

In addition to this ’69 related work, I’ve also finished my video for Knot Projections‘ first cohort of artists entitled Don’t Believe The Hype!. The video will be projected onto the side of a building in the so-called gay village in downtown Ottawa for the week leading up to, and the week of pride this August. I’ll also be giving a short artist talk followed by a panel of smart critical queers responding to the 1969 Criminal Code reform mythology that is the context for this piece.

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I also have a short and pithy essay in the forthcoming issue of QED Journal (Summer 2019) entitled “I Still Hate New Year’s Day” reflecting on the double 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots in the US and the 1969 Criminal Code reform in Canada. My friend and collaborator Yasmin Nair also has a good read on the 50th anniversary of Stonewall worth checking out as well!

Lastly, this year’s Sexuality Studies Association annual conference was a huge success in Vancouver with high turn out and fantastic panels, plenaries, and screenings.  We launched our new bilingual website, announced a new awards program, and have lots more in the works in the coming year. Dan Irving steps in as Chair and I’ve been elected as Vice Chair for the incoming 2019-2021 steering committee.  It’s going to be an exciting couple of years with the SSA!

For the last four months I’ve been working with a cohort of artists selected as part of SAW Video’s inaugural “Public Projections” program. Over the next two months I’ll be shooting and editing a newly commissioned work to be projected outdoors in Ottawa during the annual capital pride festivities. The work will challenge the commemoration of the 1969 criminal code reform that only partially decriminalized sodomy in private—a reality obfuscated by the mythology perpetuated by pride organizers that suggests the criminal code reform decriminalized homosexuality in Canada, which it did not.

I’ll be presenting at the 2019 Law, Culture, Humanities conference at the Lord Elgin Hotel in Ottawa on March 22nd along with Khaled Kchouk and Emily McBain. We’ll all be speaking to the theme of HIV and immigration, both in Canada and abroad. The following few days after LCH I’ll be at the Anti-69: Against the Mythologies of the 1969 Criminal Code Reform symposium with a two-day video program I curated focusing on the themes of gay and lesbian rights, sex workers’ rights, abortion access, and indigenous sovereignty, all themes central to the political climate of 1969. Following the conference I will be interviewing Gary Kinsman, one of the conference organizers, for the summer issue of Upping the Anti.
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I’m also finishing up a bunch of contract work: teaching an MFA seminar course on Sexuality and Censorship at Concordia University;  doing preliminary research work for the Archive/Counter-Archive project at York University focusing on a case study of AIDS activist video; finishing up the index of the oral history transcripts at the AIDS Activist History Project at Carleton University; and doing some foundation-laying work for MAX to better support the health and well-being of male sex workers in the Montreal-Ottawa-Toronto corridor.

Lastly, I’m off to the Social Science and Humanities Congress June 1-4th in Vancouver for the Sexuality Studies Association‘s annual conference. I’ll be presenting my work on international students, immigration, and sex work in Canada alongside some other great scholars of sex work. I’m also very excited for Jamie Lee Hamilton‘s keynote at the conference and the Triple-X-organized Red Umbrella March that will take place in Vancouver a few days later on June 8th!

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.