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My new book titled Toronto Living With AIDS was recently published through a collaboration between Vtape, Archive/Counter-Archive and PUBLIC Books). The book features an essays, transcripts of interview I conducted with surviving contributors to TLWA, and reflections penned by contemporary activists and artists looking back on the dozen or so tapes that made up the community cable television program. The book launch will take place at the Toronto Queer Film Festival’s annual symposium set to run from March 14-17, 2024.  I’ll be joined by TLWA contributors Kaspar Saxena, Ian Iqbal Rashid, and Darien Taylor for the TQFF event. A launch in Ottawa at DARC in collaboration with Qu’Art is also in the works for June 4th!

After months of delays Queer Data Studies is finally out in print as of January 2024. It includes a chapter I wrote on data privacy and queer data practices titled “Generated Vulnerability: Male Sex Workers, Third-Party Platforms, & Data Security”.  It was written in the early days of COVID-19 and has taken years to come out, a long duration between writing and publication that is symptomatic of academic publishing unfortunately.  Anthology editor Patrick Keilty, artist/activist Sarah Mangle, and I have proposed a Queer Data roundtable to celebrate the publication of the book as part of the Sexuality Studies Association‘s annual gathering this June in Montreal. Stay tuned for more details.

I also recently learned that I was selected selected as one of six OutHistory Fellows for the inaugural year of the recently launched queer public history award. The OutHistory Fellowship Program is designed to support the presentation of high-quality LGBTQ+ historical exhibits online through the queer public history website OutHistory.org. My research project focuses on Danny Cockerline (1960-1995), an HIV+ sex workers’ rights activist, who remains largely unrecognized for his contributions to the sex workers’ rights movement and HIV/AIDS activism in Canada. The goal of my project is to honour Danny’s memory, reclaim his space within the historical record of the various social movements of which he was an integral member, and create entry points into the primary documents held in his personal papers at the ArQuives in Toronto. The project is tentatively titled Saint Danny: Toronto’s Patron Saint of Hustlers and Rent Boys. This online exhibit will be published on OutHistory in early 2025.

I’ll be teaching a Mini-Course titled “Intro to LGBTQ Studies” at Carleton late this Spring. Carleton’s Mini-Course program is a week long intensive for interested high school students to get a taste of what university courses are like. I’ll be giving students a crash course in the formal study of sexuality and gender diversity since none of them get any substantive (if any) content of this sort in their public school classrooms. Contrary to right-wing christian fundamentalists, none of the first year university students that I have ever taught had any formal education involving sexual and gender diversity. I am offering this course as part of Carleton’s Mini-Course program specifically to undermine the heterosexist nature of public secondary school education in Ontario.

In September I began teaching at Carleton as a sessional contract instructor for the third year. I’m teaching a first year LGBT Studies seminar and a human rights course on Gender, Sexuality, and National Security. I also continue to serve my part-time faculty union at Carleton by sitting on the Executive Board as well as the negotiating team fighting for an improved collective agreement and fair deal for part-time faculty. Carleton is the third worst employer in Ontario in terms of wage competitiveness for part-time faculty and we are fighting to change that among other priorities this round of bargaining.

In June I penned a short piece for a pride-focused issue of the online magazine maintained by Go Freddie. While they failed to publish it before or during pride, my piece titled “Sex Work & Remembering Queer Whoreganizers This Pride Season” made it to press by the end of July. It’s a personal reflection on how boring and awful (ie. commercial) pride is and how queers and sex workers who once had a lot in common politically no longer do. I wonder aloud what Danny Cockerline (1960-1995), a gay activist co-founder of the Canadian Organization for the Rights of Prostitutes, Maggie’s, and the Prostitutes Safe Sex Project would think of both commercialized defanged pride celebrations and the current state of sex worker activism in Canada. (image of Danny from Epicene ‘zine circa early 90s)

Looking forward, an article I’ve been working on for the past five years with my colleague Gary Lee Pelletier titled “Here, Queer, and Paranoid! On Acrid Sociality and Collaborating Otherwise” is in the final copyediting phase with QED Journal. The article theorizes a particular form of  destructive queer sociality we name as “acrid sociality”, trying to figure out why queers treat each other so poorly in activist spaces.  It should be out this winter!

Lastly, I’m entering my last two semesters as Chair of the Sexuality Studies Association where I’m busily working on professionalizing the association, co-organizing my last annual conference as the associations Chair that will take place in May 2023, and preparing to hand over the reins to my very capable colleagues!

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.

Today begins another semester in the wonderful world of adjunct university teaching for me. I’ll be giving an interdisciplinary fine arts/arts and sciences research methods course through the lens of sexuality research. You can check out the course syllabus here if you’re curious.

Earlier this past spring my article on the changing sex work laws in Canada and the potential impact they might have on US northern border states like Maine was published in the Portland Phoenix.  The Future of Sex Work is available online for your reading pleasure. Surprisingly I have received very little hate mail after its publication which I can only attribute to the fact that no one reads long form journalism—or the Phoenix—anymore.

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On September 27th I will be doing a small talk and Q&A at the Baltimore Book Festival discussing the new Against Equality anthology, Queer Revolution, Not Mere Inclusion.  There are no other firm touring dates this fall for Against Equality, but in February and March I will be touring across Australia and New Zealand spreading the anti-assimilationist, anti-capitalist queer gospel that is Against Equality. Dates for this down under tour will be posted sometime in the next few months on the AE events page.

I’m also working on a few forthcoming journal articles and book chapters including a historical overview and analysis of the MIXNYC experimental queer film festival, an editorial about why I’m not a #truvadawhore, and a co-authored Against Equality piece for the UK-based Decolonizing Sexualities Network’s forthcoming anthology. There are a couple short film projects in the works as well!

Tomorrow I am leaving to go on tour with the new Against Equality anthology, Queer Revolution, Not Mere Inclusion which just came out for AK Press in March. I will be bouncing from the northeast to the southwest in about four weeks doing lectures, panels, and book launches. Full details of the tour can be found here and you can order the book directly from AK Press here.

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The short film Rituel Queers that I collaborated on with REB screened at The Boston Faerie Cabaret in February and was warmly received. With any luck the film will have its European premiere at Entzaubert—my favorite DIY queer/trans film festival in Europe—this July.

My old friend Jessy Kendall of S/H/A/R/P/S and I collaborated on a track on his new album Shit Show that just came out. This track is a remix of Micahel Callen’s track “Home” on the 1994 album Purple Heart. I’m also working on another similar audio/video remix of 90s talk shows, HIV/AIDS, satanic cults, televangelists, gay porn, and the boy scouts due out this summer.

Karma Chávez and I made our way to London, along with Yasmin Nair in digital form, for the Decolonizing Sexualities Network’s second roundtable event on November 29th.  Against Equality presented an overview of our activist and archival work to a packed room and got to meet lots of great activists and intellectuals from the UK including our gracious hosts Suhraiya Jivraj and Silvia Posocco.

Also, our chapter “Against Equality, Against Capitalism: Towards an Economic Critique of Gay Marriage” in the Australian anthology After Homosexual: The Legacies of Gay Liberation (edited by Carolyn D’Cruz & Mark Pendleton) is set to launch in Melbourne at Hares & Hyenas on January 14th.
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My chapter “Damn Right We’re Here to Destroy Marriage!” in The Gay Agenda: Claiming Space, Identity, and Justice (edited by Gerald Walton) is set to be published in early 2014.  Still no confirmed publishing date, but I’ve been told it should be out very soon.  This chapter argues against the politics of gay respectability and encourages queer activists to embrace rather than deflect the religious right’s worst fears about us—we are indeed to here to destroy marriage, the family, and the nation!

Curators from MIX MILANO have invited the collaborative team behind Does This Bother You?, of which I was a part, to recreate the exhibition in Milano in the Summer of June 2014.  This second iteration of our project is sure to scandalize the newly elected Pope and stuffy respectable gays alike.  More news to come…

things are different now… continue to have a life through another public screening at the Queer Lisboa 17 film festival this past September. The experimental short will be available for viewing online this winter once it completes its other festival screenings lined up this fall.

Est-ce que ça vous dérange? Does This Bother You?, a collaborative exhibition I worked on, opened at RATS9 Galerie on October 11th and ran through October 26th.  In addition to the opening I gave an artist talk with my collaborator on October 15th to a full house and it will be available as a video on the exhibition website shortly.  A digital version of the exhibition catalog featuring writing by journalist Matthew Hays and art historian Erin Silver is available here.

The short experimental Super 8mm film that I created in collaboration with Richard E. Bump will having its premiere (of sorts) in all its rich color-saturated glory at the 26th edition of MIXNYC on November 16th. Rituels Queer will be shown as a double projection with an original soundtrack by friend and co-conspirator Chadd Beverlin.  Rituels Queer is part of a larger program of twelve sexy steamy shorts not to be missed!

In mid-October I presented my paper “Revisiting AIDS and Its Metaphors” at the Universities Art Association of Canada‘s annual conference in Banff, Alberta.  The paper, which reviews the work of queer artists that framed the pre-protease inhibitor days of the AIDS crisis as a form of genocide, focuses in detail on the short film By Any Means Necessary by James Wentzy.  The paper has since been submitted to a number of academic journals and with any luck will be available publicly in the first half of 2014.

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Against Equality: Queer Revolution, Not Mere Inclusion, an anthology of all the combined writing from our first three books along with a new introduction from the collective, is on schedule to hit the streets in March 2014.  This book will save the AE collective time, money, and work by alleviating our need to keep three books in print as opposed to just one. And all of this has been made possible by our wonderful pals over at AK Press who have been a supportive distributor for our first three book projects and have taken on the task of publishing this final anthology.

In other Against Equality news, Karma Chávez, Yasmin Nair, and I will be doing a roundtable talk in London with the Decolonizing Sexualities Network on the 29th of November.  At the roundtable we will be discussing our work with AE, focusing on the three sections of our archive: marriage, militarism, and prisons.  The event will be recorded and available on the DSN website soon after the event.

Lastly, I’ve been one of the co-coordinators of a fundraising effort to support the production of a film by LGBTQ identified Russians about the impact of the anti-gay propaganda bill recently signed into law by Putin.  This project differs from similar media attention in that the documentary film Children 404 is being made by Russian queers as opposed to other outsiders from the West.  You can check out the fundraising campaign that runs through November 15th here.

After being selected to show my work at the Frameline International LGBT Film Festival in San Francisco, I’ve pulled my short experimental film things are different now… in order to support the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel.  Frameline has been targeted for it’s complicity with Israeli pinkwashing. The festival has been targeted by local queer activist groups like Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism (QUIT) and Gay Shame for over a decade.  I gave a short interview with ArtThreat over pulling my film and things are differnet now… will be screened alternatively at Periwinkle Cinema’s Rejected!!! on June 20th at the Artist Television Access in San Francisco instead.

things are different now… has also screened as part of NOT OVER: 25 Years of Visual AIDS in New York at LaMama gallery.  The show also includes a small print version of my broadsheet Down Is Not Up. The show, currated by Kris Nuzzi and Sur Rodney (Sur), is up for the entire month of June and features the work of lots of friends and colleagues.

Does This Bother You? a collaborative street based poster project that I participated in this spring will see a full scale exhibition and catalog in the fall of 2013 in Montréal.  More information about the project is forthcoming, but in the mean time the project has already provoked a bit of press both locally and nationally in Canada.

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Also my You Must Marry posters, a pastiche based on the original Homocult poster, made there first appearance at Southern Maine Pride and will be coming with me for a special night of wheat pasting in NYC for Pride.  More details about this project forthcoming after I hit the streets for NYC Pride.

As for Against Equality news, I’ve been busily working away on the manuscript for a new unabridged addition of Against Equality’s three anthologies all in one along with some new material.  The new anthology will help us greatly reduce our printing and shipping costs while still providing free books to prisoners.  It is due out in the spring of 2014 through AK Press and AE members will be touring to support the launch of the new anthology

Also, the video from the Imagining Queer Justice panel I spoke at on behalf of Against Equality this past spring with Eric Stanley and Reina Gossett is now available online below.  Special thanks to Margot Weiss at Wesleyan University for making it all possible!

My short experimental film on HIV/AIDS and inter-generational memory loss, things are different now…, has shown in Berlin, New York, and London, and screenings in Prague, Copenhagen, Toronto, San Francisco, New York, Portland OR, and Providence RI are all in the works.  In fact, the short will be showing in Portland OR today as part of the Where Do We Go From Here exhibition.

I have a book review of Benjamin Heim Shepard‘s Play, Creativity, and Social Movements (2011) the most recent edition of the journal Socialism & Democracy and I am working on a review of Nicola Barker’s Not The Marrying Kind: A Feminist Critique of Same-Sex Marriage (2012) for the soon-to-be-launched QED: A Journal in LGBTQ Worldmaking.

I’ve also got an interview with New York City based prolific writer and agitator Sarah Schulman in the forthcoming issue of e-flux journal edited by Carlos Motta.  In it we discuss her most recent two book as well as the nature of queer collaborations, the rapidly changing publishing industry, queer mentorship, and the politics of always coming from the margins.

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Against Equality also just got word that the book coming out of the After Homosexual conference I presented at a year ago finally got the green light. A co-authored piece between Yasmin Nair, Kárma Chavez, and myself titled, Against Equality, Against Capitalism: Towards an Economic Critique of Gay Marriage will appear there.  The three of us also co-authored the introduction to another forthcoming Australia-based book project called To The Exclusion of All Others where our piece titled, Against Equality: From the Belly of the Beast to the Land Down Under, will appear.

In other Against Equality news, I will be participating in a panel with Eric Stanley and Reina Gossett titled Imagining Queer Justice: Prison Abolition and LGBT Hate Crimes Legislation on April 26th at Wesleyan University.  On this panel organized by the wonderful Margot Weiss, I will be talking about Against Equality and or work challenging the logic of LGBT hate crime laws which is highlighted in our most recent anthology, Against Equality: Prisons Will Not Protect You.

My chapter “(Gay) Marriage and (Queer) Love”, which picks up where Emma Goldman’s searing critique of marriage titled “Marriage and Love” left off about 100 years ago, appears in the opening chapter of the new AK Press title Queering Anarchism edited by C.B. Daring, J. Rogue, Deric Shannon, and Abbey Volcano.  This book is available in both print and as an ebook through AK Press.

Additionally my chapter exploring the work of and politics of Against Equality, “Damn Right We’re Here to Destroy Marriage!” will be in the forthcoming anthology The Gay Agenda: Claiming Space, Identity, and Justice, due out in the fall of 2013.

I have a forthcoming roundtable discussion with Eric A. Stanley and Chris E. Vargas about their film projects Homotopia (2006) and Criminal Queers (2012) in the forthcoming special issue on sex and gender in performance produced by APARTÉ Journal .

There is also a roundtable discussion with a few of us from Against Equality in the new issue of American Quarterly, “’Reinvigorating the Queer Political Imagination’: A Roundtable with Ryan Conrad, Yasmin Nair, and Karma Chávez of Against Equality” in which we discuss our relationships to academia and activism.  This roundtable was conducted by one of the journal’s wonderful editors, Margot Weiss.

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This fall I was asked to participate in the annual AIDS Action Now! Poster/VIRUS project.  I was tapped to design two posters for the series which debuted at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto and at the VAV gallery in Montreal in and around world AIDS day.  The first poster titled “Fuck the Supreme Court*” focuses on the recent decision by the supreme court of Canada to further criminalize HIV non-disclosure while the second poster titled “Working Conditions” focuses on male sex workers and HIV/AIDS.  These posters channel the aesthetics and feminist politics of Barbara Kruger, the work of David Wojnarowicz, and the early aesthetic of sexually explicit HIV/AIDS prevention campaigns.

Lastly, my short film things are different now… had it’s American premiere at the 25th MIX experimental film fest in New York City this past November and will be screening for the first time in Canada early in the new year.  Stay tuned for details…