Changing Gender | Making Worlds with Susan Stryker and Laura Horak
October 1, 2026 at 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM
| Location: | The Grove, Unit 280 | 18 Louisa Street | Buzz 2800 | Ottawa | Algonquin Territory |
| Cost: | Free |
Moderated by Cara Tierney
Door: 5:30 | Event: 6:00-7:00PM
Accessibility: https://grove613.ca/accessibility/
Featuring Susan Stryker’s new book, Changing Gender – a provocative, genre-bending call to reconsider the story we tell about gender itself – and Laura Horak’s new book Trans Cinema: Making Communities, Identities, and Worlds – an exciting introduction to cinema by the trans creators who are innovating filmmaking to imagine a more inclusive world.
Susan Stryker’s historical research, theoretical writings, media-making, activism, and academic field-building activities have helped shape the conversation on trans issues since the early 1990s. Stryker retired from the University of Arizona in 2020 and currently holds a distinguished visiting appointment at Stanford University’s Michelle Clayman Institute for Gender Research. She is the author of many academic and general audience works, including Transgender History.
Laura Horak is Professor of Film Studies at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, and founder of the award-winning Transgender Media Portal. She is author of Girls Will Be Boys: Cross-Dressed Women, Lesbians, and American Cinema.
Cara Tierney is a Scottish/Irish/Italian/white/settler, trans* creative/educator/consultant/curator whose work sits at the intersection of art and education, oriented toward collective liberation. Currently a prof in the University of Ottawa’s Visual Arts department, over the last 20 years they have delivered and designed both arts, and arts-based workshops on unceded Algonquin land, in and around so-called Ottawa, approaching their work as an endless series of moments from which to learn, bridge creativity, communities, and share knowledge in the service of social transformation.
Sponsored by Carleton’s Transgender Media Lab; Institute for Comparative Studies of Literature, Arts, and Culture; Department of Law and Legal Studies, Department of Sociology and Anthropology; Canada Research Chair in Critical Disability Studies and Communication; Digital Accessible Futures Lab; Sarah Brouilette; and Jennifer Evans; as well as St. Paul University’s Élisabeth-Bruyère School of Social Innovation.