{"id":1560,"date":"2023-01-05T10:42:21","date_gmt":"2023-01-05T14:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faggotz.org\/wp?p=1560"},"modified":"2023-02-16T21:50:49","modified_gmt":"2023-02-17T01:50:49","slug":"winter-updates-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faggotz.org\/wp\/2023\/01\/winter-updates-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I&#8217;m wrapping up my last semester as Chair of the <a href=\"http:\/\/ssaaes.org\/\">Sexuality Studies Association<\/a> where I\u2019m busily working on co-organizing the last annual conference under my leadership.\u00a0 The <a href=\"http:\/\/ssaaes.org\/2023\/01\/02\/2023-annual-conference-cfp-deadline-extended-to-january-15th\/\">call for proposals<\/a> is out and available, with a deadline of January 15, 2023.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This winter I will continue teaching on contract at Carleton where I&#8217;m scheduled to teach the second half of <em>Intro to LGBT Studies<\/em> to first year students and a course on sex work titled <em>Sex for Sale<\/em> to second and third year students. I&#8217;m excited to be back in the classroom and I have a great combination of guest speakers and archival field trips planned for this semester!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/event\/sex-work-and-covid-19-in-global-perspective\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1562 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/faggotz.org\/wpwp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/FIST-event-card_Jan-19-1024x535-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faggotz.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/FIST-event-card_Jan-19-1024x535-1.png 1024w, https:\/\/faggotz.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/FIST-event-card_Jan-19-1024x535-1-300x157.png 300w, https:\/\/faggotz.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/FIST-event-card_Jan-19-1024x535-1-768x401.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Emma McKenna and I have been invited to share the results of our study on sex workers&#8217; tax filing habits and access to social safety nets in Ottawa-Gatineau at Carleton as part of an international roundtable: <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/event\/sex-work-and-covid-19-in-global-perspective\/\"><em>Sex Work and COVID-19 in Global Perspective<\/em><\/a>. This online event will take place on zoom at 5pm EST on January 19th.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The article I\u2019ve been working on for the past five years with my colleague Gary Lee Pelletier titled \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/faggotz.org\/wpwp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Acrid-Sociality-2022.pdf\">Here, Queer, and Paranoid! On Acrid Sociality and Collaborating Otherwise<\/a>\u201d is now published in <a href=\"https:\/\/msupress.org\/journals\/qed\/\"><em>QED Journal<\/em><\/a> (Vol 9 No 2). The article theorizes a particular form of\u00a0 destructive queer sociality we name as \u201cacrid sociality,\u201d trying to figure out why queers treat each other so poorly in activist spaces.\u00a0 This has been a long time coming, but we are happy that it is finally in print!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lastly, I continue my work with the part-time faculty union at Carleton, <a href=\"https:\/\/cupe4600.ca\/\">CUPE 4600<\/a>. In addition to sitting on the Executive Board as the Recording Secretary, I am also on the negotiating team fighting for an improved collective agreement and fair deal for part-time faculty. Carleton remains 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m wrapping up my last semester as Chair of the Sexuality Studies Association where I\u2019m busily working on co-organizing the last annual conference under my leadership.\u00a0 The call for proposals is out and available, with a deadline of January 15, 2023. 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