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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.

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…

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