Ryan Conrad
Contract Instructor
- PhD in Cultural Studies (Concordia University); MFA in Interdisciplinary Studio Arts (Maine College of Art); B.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies (Bates College)
Ryan Conrad is an activist, artist, film programmer, and cultural studies scholar whose research, teaching, and cultural production interests in the study of sexuality include queer studies, queer of colour critique, film & media studies, counter-archival practices, and social movement histories of sex worker and HIV/AIDS activism. Conrad’s current SSHRC funded research project titled Sex Worker Self-Authoring in the Canadian Women’s Movement Archive explores the holdings of the CWMA housed in the Archives and Special Collections at the University of Ottawa. The project locates and animates written, visual, and audio/visual materials produced by sex workers and the sex workers’ rights movement in Canada from 1977-1992. Conrad is also an Adjunct Research Professor at the Feminist Institute of Social Transformation.
Recent Publications
Toronto Living With AIDS 1990-1991, PUBLIC Books, Toronto, ON, March 2024.
“Generated Vulnerability: Male Sex Workers, Third-Party Platforms, & Data Security,” Queer Data Studies, University of Washington Press, Seattle, WA, January 2024.
“Here, Queer, and Paranoid!: On Acrid Sociality and Collaborating Otherwise,” co-authored with Gary Lee Pelletier, QED Journal, Vol 9 No. 2, Fall 2022, 69–92.
“Lessons Learned, Lessons Shared: Doing Research in Collaboration with Sex Workers and Sex Worker Organizations,” co-authored with Emma McKenna, in Facilitating Community Research for Social Change: Case Studies in Qualitative, Arts-Based and Visual Research, Routledge, Oxfordshire, UK, April 2022.
“An Intergenerational Dialogue on HIV/AIDS Activist Video History,” co-authored with John Greyson, Little Joe, No. 6, November 2021.
“Cable Access Queer: Revisiting Toronto Living With AIDS 1990-91,” Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media, No. 60, March 2021.
“Looking for Gaëtan,” Between Certain Death and a Possible Future: Queer Writing on Growing up with the AIDS Crisis, Arsenal Pulp Press, Vancouver, BC, October 2021.