Date: May 21, 2021 – October 15, 2021
Time:1:30 PM EDT – 3:30 PM EDT
Location: Zoom Webinar
Open To: General Public
Contact: Ricky Varghese ricky.varghese@ryerson.ca
Website: https://sexandthepandemic.com
Register here.
This speaker series addresses how sex, sexuality, and intimacy may be conceived of by queer men and men who have sex with men (MSM) within the context of the COVID-19 global pandemic.
Monthly Program
Third Friday of each month, 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. EST
May 21: A Tale of Two Viruses
- Open to Infection: Two Viruses and Black-Queer-Life
- Distinct & Dissimilar: HIV, COVID-19, and the Desire for Meaning
June 18: Resistances, Collectivities, Nostalgias
- Policing Pandemics and Ongoing Resistance
- When AIDS Nostalgia Gets in the Way of Fighting COVID
- COMMUNITY VIRAL LOAD: Living Collectively with Viruses
July 16: Categorical Splits
- How to ”Not” Have Sex in a Pandemic: COVID-19 and Online Gay Male Sexual Cultures
- Variants: On Melancholia and Moralism
August 20: The Weaponization of Safety
- Sex and Contagion, or White Fragility (on Safe)
- The “Good” Coronavirus Citizen, The “COVIDIOT”, and the Privilege of #StayAtHome
- A Queer Theory of Benign Respiratory Variations
September 17: Forms of Intimacies
- Confinement and Intimacies
- Hot for Zoom: Cruising for Access Intimacy across Pandemics
- Rethinking Sex: Black Queer Literature in the Time of HIV/AIDS
October 15: Variations of the Social
- Isolated bodies, Governed Exchanges
- Queer Solitude: Dean Sameshina’s “being alone”
- Viral Intimacies: Sex or the Replication of Undoing
Accessibility Information:
Live captioning and ASL interpretation will be provided. The talk will be held online and recorded over Zoom.
Please email avital.cherniawsky@ryerson.ca to discuss any access needs or inquiries.
