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You can either find me on academia.edu or check out my work below.  PDFs and links included where possible.

Books & Catalogs
  • Working Girls, Queer Film Classics Series, (McGill Queens Press), forthcoming 2025. (under contract)
Books Chapters
  • “Canadian AIDS Society’s Millennium Time Capsule,” Monumental Memories: A Critical Reading of Memorials, Monuments, and Statues in Canada’s Capital Region, McGill-Queen’s University Press, forthcoming 2025.
  • “Generated Vulnerability: Male Sex Workers, Third-Party Platforms, & Data Security,” Queer Data Studies, University of Washington Press, Forthcoming, January 2024.
  • “Looking for Gaëtan,” Between Certain Death and a Possible Future: Queer Writing on Growing up with the AIDS Crisis, Arsenal Pulp Press, October 2021.
  • “O Canada: HIV Not Welcome Here,” Queer and Trans Migrations: Dynamics of Detention, Deportation, and Illegalization, University of Illinois Press, Fall 2020.
  • “Against Equality, Against Inclusion,” co-authored with Yasmin Nair & Karma Chávez, Decolonizing Sexualities: Transnational Perspectives and Critical Interventions, CounterPress, London, England, Fall 2016.
Journal Articles
  • “HIV is Not a Crime,” forum with Ryan Conrad, Demian Dine’Yazhi’, Alison Duke, David Oscar Harvey, Cyd Nova, and Michael Johnson, QED Journal, Vol 3 No. 2, December 2016.
Magazine Articles
  • “Forget Equality, I Want Justice!,” Out in Maine, June 2011.
Lectures & Presentations
  • Death of the Videomaker: Gay Men’s Orphaned AIDS Tapes of the 1980s/’90s,” Orphan’s Film Conference, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, 17 June 2022.
  • “Accidental Archives: Thirty Years of HIV/AIDS Cultural Activism and Stewardship at Canada’s Artist-Run Media Arts Organizations,” Film Studies Association of Canada Annual Conference, virtual, 13 May 2022.
  • “Distinct & Dissimilar: HIV, COVID-19, and the Desire for Meaning,” Sex and the Pandemic Speaker Series, University of Toronto, Toronto ON, 21 May 2021.
  • “A Decade of Loss In Our Own Words: Maine’s Gay and Lesbian Press Coverage of Anti-Gay Ballot Initiatives 1992-2005,” University of Southern Maine Community Dialogue Series, Portland ME, 5 November 2020.
  • “AIDS Activist Cinema and the Queer Canadian Underground,” Nat Taylor Lecture Series, York University, 12 November 2019.
  • “HIV Not Welcome Here: Canada’s Policy of Excluding of HIV-positive Immigrants,” Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities, Ottawa, ON, 22-23 March 2019.
  • “Counting the Placebo Dead: Early AIDS Activism with and against Placebo-Based Drug Trials,” co-presented with Alexis Shotwell, American Studies Association Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA, 8-10 November 2018.
  • “HIV/AIDS: Social, Cultural, and Scientific Aspects of the Pandemic in Canada,” guest lecturer, Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, McGill University, Montreal, QC, 7 November 2018.
  • “The Canadian AIDS Activist History Project: Our First Five Years,” Sexuality Studies Association Annual Conference, University of Regina, Regina, SK, 28 May 2018.
  • “The Cost of Erotic Touch: Sex Work, Migration, and Employment Regulation in Canada,” Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities Annual Conference, Georgetown University, Washington DC, 16-17 March, 2018; The Othered Senses Workshop, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, 1-3 May, 2018.
  • “HIV/AIDS: Social, Cultural, and Scientific Aspects of the Pandemic in Canada,” guest lecturer, Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, McGill University, Montreal, QC, 1 November 2017.
  • “Revisiting AIDS and Its Metaphors,” Visible Evidence XXII, York University, Toronto, ON, 19-22 August, 2015.
  • “Carceral Feminism, Carceral Queers,” guest lecturer, Simone de Beauvoir Institute, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, 22 October 2015.
  • “Queer Imaginations: An Affective Politics Beyond Identity?,” La Trobe University, Melbourne, VC, 20 March, 2015.
  • “Revisiting AIDS and Its Metaphors,” University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VC, 19 March, 2015.
  • “Against Equality: Queer Revolution, Not Mere Inclusion,” Macalester College, St. Paul, MN, 16 April, 2014; Bureau of General Services—Queer Division, New York, NY, 19 April, 2014; Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT, 22 April, 2014; Concordia University, Montreal QC, 23 April, 2014; Queer Possibilities lecture series, Alteregos Café, Halifax, NS, 24 April, 2014; Calamus Books, Boston, MA, April 26, 2014; Bates College, Lewiston, ME, 2 May 2014; Maine College of Art, Portland, ME, 4 May 2014; University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 5 May 2014; University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 6 May 2014; Stories Books, Los Angeles, CA, 10 May, 2014; Baltimore Bookfestival, Baltimore, MD, 28 September, 2014; John Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 30 September, 2014; Hares & Hyenas, Melbourne, VIC, 13 February, 2015; Queer Thinking Day, Seymour Centre, Sydney, NSW, 21 February, 2015; University of Auckland, NZ, 25 February, 2015; Freedom Shop, Wellington, NZ, 1 March, 2015; Black Star Books, Dunedin, NZ, 4 March, 2015; Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, 15 April, 2015; Burning Books, Buffalo, NY, 16 April, 2015;
  • “Revisiting AIDS and Its Metaphors,” Universities Art Association of Canada Annual Conference, Banff, AB, Canada, 18 October 2013.
  • “AIDS, Art, Activism: Gran Fury & General Idea,” Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada, 24 January 2013.
  • “On Equality,” University of Toronto, Toronto ON, Canada, 29 November 2012.
  • “Against Equality: Don’t Ask to Fight Their Wars,” Mess Hall, Chicago, IL, 21 April 2012; The New Museum, New York, NY, 21 June 2012; Williams College, Williamstown, MA, 4 October, 2012; McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, 17 January 2012.
  • “(Gay) Marriage and (Queer) Love,” University of Southern Illinois, Carbondale, IL, 19 April 2012.
  • “Against Equality: Building Towards Something Greater Than,” After Homosexual: The Legacy of Gay Liberation Conference, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, 4 February 2012.
  • “AIDS, Art, Activism: Gran Fury & General Idea,” Otis College of Art, Los Angeles, CA, 30 January 2012.
Panel Participation
  • Sex Work and COVID-19 in Global Perspective, Carleton University, Ottawa ON, 19 January 2023.
  • Talkshow: Neo-Viralisms, Humanities for Young People Speakers Series, King’s College, Halifax NS, 16 May 2021.
  • Voices of Migrant Sex Workers, MAX Ottawa and SAW Video, 13 August 2020.
  • Don’t Believe the ’69 Hype, Stonewall 50 Symposium, Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto, ON, 9 November 2019.
  • Sex Work & Labour Studies Roundtable, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, 30 September 2019.
  • Don’t Believe the ’69 Hype, Knot Project Space, SAW Video, Ottawa, ON, 20 August 2019.
  • The 1969 Omnibus Bill, Action Canada for Sexual Health & Rights 50th Anniversary, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, ON, 31 May 2019.
  • HIV/AIDS Film and Video Makers Roundtable, Sexuality Studies Association Annual Conference, Ryerson University, Toronto, ON, 27 May 2017.
  • AIDS and Cultural Activism, College Art Association Annual Conference, New York, NY, 17 February 2017.
  • Collecting Maine’s LGBTQ History Conference, University of Southern Maine, Portland, ME, 30 April 2016.
  • Why We Remember: HIV/AIDS Media Now Conference, McGill University, Montreal, QC, 12-13 February 2016.
  • Being Together in Turbulence Working Group, MANIFEST! Choreographing Social Movements in the Americas, The 9th Encuentro of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, Montreal, QC, June 21–28, 2014.
  • “The Queer Art of the Counter Archive,” Radical Archives Conference, New York University, New York, NY, 11-12 April, 2014.
  • Against Equality at the Decolonizing Sexualities Network Roundtable II, University of London at Birkbeck, London UK, 28 November 2013.
Exhibitions
  • Toronto Queer Film Festival, Tranzac Club, Toronto ON, 15-17 March 2024.
  • Toronto Queer Film Festival, Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto ON, 8-10 November 2019.
  • Knot Projections 2019: Imagining Publics, SAW Video, Ottawa, ON, 12 – 25 August 2019.
  • Art AIDS America, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA 3 October 2015 – 10 January 2016; Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw, GA, 20 February – 22 May 2016; The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY, 13 July – 23 October 2016; Alphawood Gallery, Chicago, IL, 1 December 2016 – 2 April 2017.
  • Outside the Frame Film Festival, Brava Theater, San Francisco, CA, 19 June 2015.
  • Entzaubert Film Festival, Schwarzer Kanal, Berlin, Germany, 2-6 July, 2014.
  • Queer City Cinema, Neutral Ground Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, 15-17 May, 2014.
  • Experiments in Cinema, Southwest Film Center at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM,14-20 April, 2014.
  • MIX NYC Queer Experimental Film Festival, New York, NY, 12-17 November 2013.
  • Est-ce que ça vous dérange? Does this Bother You?, RATS9 Gallery, Montreal, QC Canada, October 2013.
  • Queer Lisboa Film Festival, Lisbon, Portugal, 20-28 September 2013.
  • NOT OVER: 25 Years of Visual AIDS, La Mama gallery, New York, NY, June 2013.
  • Rejected!!! Film Festival, Periwinkle Cinema and Artist Television Access, San Francisco CA, 19 June 2013.
  • Prison Nation: Posters on The Prison Industrial Complex, Center for the Study of Political Graphics, Los Angeles, CA, Winter/Spring, 2013.
  • British Film Institute’s London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, London, UK, 14-24 March, 2013.
  • Poster/VIRUS, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON, Canada, 28 November 2012; VAV Gallery, Montreal, QC Canada, 1 December 2012.
  • MIX NYC Queer Experimental Film Festival, New York, NY, 13-18 November 2012.
  • Entzaubert Film Festival, Schwarzer Kanal, Berlin, Germany, August 2-5, 2012.
  • Kansai Queer Film Festival, HEP HALL, Osaka, Japan, 17-19 September 2011; Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, 21-23 October, 2011.
  • Domestic Queens, FOFA Gallery, Concordia, Montreal, QC, 4 March 2011.
Interviews