Over the summer I learned that my SSHRC Insight Development Grant to conduct research in the Canadian Women’s Movement Archive at University of Ottawa was successful. The $70,000 will go to supporting research activities leading to the creation of an alternative finding aid that links together all of the materials authored by sex workers across various fonds within and linked to the CWMA. This two-year project is just beginning, so stay tuned for updates and events related to the project!
November 29th and 30th I will be participating in a conference that marks the culmination of John Greyson and Sarah Flicker’s Viral Interventions project. I will be speaking on a panel titled “Struggles: HIV, Video & the 
Archive” where I will present my research on queer sex worker and HIV/AIDS activist Danny Cockerline and screen short excerpts from recovered videos that date to the early 1990s. This panel will take place on the 29th of November from 10am – 1pm alongside a slue of other video artists and archivists in the screening room at Vtape.
This fall I am teaching three courses at Carleton University: Public Health & Human Rights, HIV/AIDS Film & Video, and Gender, Sexuality, & National Security. This winter I will also teach a brand new course titled Queer & Trans Youth. In addition to teaching at Carleton this academic year, I continue to serve as the Vice President Internal of CUPE 4600, the union for Teaching Assistants and Contract Faculty at the University. Our collective agreement expires in less than a year and we are gearing up for bargaining next summer.