Past Event

Gary Kinsman and Patrizia Gentile present a discussion on Carleton University’s role in the Canadian war on queers. The presentations link the launch of the 3rd edition of The Regulation of Desire: Queer Histories, Queer Struggles with a focus on one of the Department of Psychology’s former chairs and the developer of the fruit machine, an anti-queer detection technology, Dr. Frank R. Wake. In addition to addressing this history drawn from The Canadian War on Queers: National Security as Sexual Regulation (2010), The Regulation of Desire (3rd ed.) also includes an analysis on 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.

This event is sponsored by FIST, ICCJ, ISS, and SOC/ANTH.

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