Of Fruit Machines and Third Editions: Queer Histories and Queer Resistance

The talks link together the participation of Carleton University in the Canada war on queers – especially the Psychology Department and Dr. Wake in developing the Fruit Machine detection technology with the release of the 3rd Edition of the Regulation of Desire: Queer Histories, Queer Struggles. The 3rd edition addresses the Fruit Machine and the Canadian war on queers, and also addresses the limitations of the 2017 “apology” for the purge campaigns and the emergence of the Neo-liberal queer.

Gary Kinsman is a queer liberation, anti-oppression, and anti-capitalist activist and is the author of The Regulation of Desire: Queer Histories, Queer Struggles, and co-author of The Canadian War on Queers: National Security as Sexual Regulation, and co-editor of We Still Demand!: Redefining Resistance in Sex and Gender Struggles.

Patrizia Gentile is a professor in the Human Rights and Social Justice program and the Feminist Institute of Social Transformation at Carleton, and  is the author of University Queen of the Maple Leaf: Beauty Contests and Settler Femininity, and co-author of The Canadian War on Queers: National Security as Sexual Regulation, and co-editor of We Still Demand!: Redefining Resistance in Sex and Gender Struggles.