{"id":1218,"date":"2019-12-21T09:00:51","date_gmt":"2019-12-21T13:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faggotz.org\/wp?p=1218"},"modified":"2025-01-19T18:47:13","modified_gmt":"2025-01-19T22:47:13","slug":"winter-updates-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faggotz.org\/wp\/2019\/12\/winter-updates-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/em><\/a> as part of my book research. So far I’ve spoken with John Greyson<\/a>, Richard Fung<\/a>, and Kaspar Saxena<\/a>. 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.\u00a0 There’s also talk, through the Archive\/Counter-Archive project of launching some sort of Toronto Living with HIV\/AIDS <\/em>series reboot in 2020.\u00a0 Stay tuned!<\/p>\n

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This coming semester I’ll be guest lecturing at Brock University in Dr. Emma McKenna<\/a>‘s labour studies course focusing on sex work\/ers.\u00a0 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<\/a> and under-recognized activist Danny Cockerline<\/a>. I’ll be teaching Andy Sorfleet’s writing (Busting Sex Work Stigma: You Can’t Catch HIV from Money<\/a>) and screening George Stamos’ brilliant short doc Our Bodies Our Business<\/em><\/a> (2016) on sex worker activism at the Montreal International AIDS conference in 1989. Video still of Danny and Valerie Scott<\/a> from\u00a0OBOB<\/em> to the right.<\/p>\n

After launching the Research Repository<\/a> (RR) with POWER folks this fall, I’m working on a systematic review of sex work research in\/on Canada since PEPCA<\/a> <\/em>in December 2014. <\/em>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.<\/p>\n

My review of Malynnda Johnson’s 2018 HIV on TV<\/em> <\/a>book review should be out any day now in the Canadian Journal of Film Studies<\/em><\/a> (Vol. 28, No. 2).\u00a0 While the book is worth checking out, my review points out a few epistemological gaps worth further investigation.\u00a0 The book is prohibitively expensive, so definitely encourage your library to order a copy if you’re interested.<\/p>\n

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