The Regulation of Queer, Trans and Disabled Bodies
Double Book Launch: The Regulation of Queer, Trans and Disabled Bodies
- Ruth Wynn Woodward Jr. Chair Event
- May 10, 2024, SFU World Art Centre
- Gary Kinsman and A.J. Withers
- Moderator: Cait McKinney, Associate Professor, Communications, Simon Fraser University
Gary Kinsman, author of The Regulation of Desire, Third Edition: Queer Histories, Queer Struggles and A.J. Withers, author of Disability Politics and Theory and creator of the short film The Unicorn Eradication Project: A Story About Eugenics talk about their new projects. The authors will discuss how queer and disabled bodies are surveilled and controlled, how members of these communities have been complicit in perpetuating colonialism, neoliberalism and white supremacy, the increasing right-wing attacks on these communities and need for abolitionist, decolonial, anti-racist, queer/trans liberation and disability justice movements.
Gary Kinsman is a queer liberation, anti-oppression, and anti-capitalist activist and the co-author of The Canadian War on Queers: National Security as Sexual Regulation.
A.J. Withers is the Ruth Wynn Woodward Jr. Chair in Gender, Sexuality & Women’s Studies at SFU. They are long-time homelessness & housing community organizer and author of Fight to Win: Inside Poor People’s Organizing.