At this QFEN meeting Gender Studies student Charlie Atkinson will present Ochoa, M. (2014). Queen for a day: Transformistas, Beauty Queens, and the performance of femininity in Venezuela.

This will be our last QFEN meeting for the spring term until we will resume in the fall.

Contact genderstudies@queensu.ca for the virtual meeting details and the introduction to Queen for a day.

This session is intended for current Queen's undergraduate students who are thinking about declaring a Major, Medial, Minor, or General in Gender Studies.

Join our virtual session on Thursday, April 28 at 2:00pm EST to learn more.

Our Undergraduate Chair Dr. Melissa Houghtaling will speak about degree plan options, course requirements, the Certificate in Sexual and Gender Diversity, career paths, and more. There will be an opportunity to ask any questions you may have.

Contact gndsug@queensu.ca for zoom meeting details. 

At this QFEN meeting, Gender Studies PhD graduate student Sarah Smith will present the important ethnography Bipolar Expeditions: Mania and Depression in American Culture by Emily Martin (2007). 

Contact genderstudies@queensu.ca for the virtual meeting details and the introduction and chapter one of Bipolar Expeditions.

Join us via Zoom or in-person in the Welcoming Room (Mac-Corry E202) on April 29th at 2pm for the first meeting of the Black Studies reading group! We'll be discussing The History of Black Studies with its author, Professor Abdul Alkalimat. 

Contact Taylor Cenac for details.

2022 Sexual & Gender Diversity Speaker

Speaker: Dr. micha cárdenas (University of California, Santa Cruz)

Registration is required in advance.

micha cárdenas, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Performance, Play and Design, and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she directs the Critical Realities Studio. Her book Poetic Operations, forthcoming from Duke University Press, proposes algorithmic analysis to develop a trans of color poetics. cárdenas’s co-authored books The Transreal: Political Aesthetics of Crossing Realities (2012) and Trans Desire / Affective Cyborgs (2010) were published by Atropos Press. She is co-editor of the book series Queer/Trans/Digital at NYU Press, with Amanda Philips and Bo Ruberg. She is a first generation Colombian American. Her articles have been published in Transgender Studies Quarterly, GLQ: Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, AI & Society, Scholar & Feminist Online, the Ada Journal of Gender, New Media and Technology, among others.

cárdenas’ artwork has been described as “a seminal milestone for artistic engagement in VR” by the Spike art journal in Berlin. She is a member of the artist collective Electronic Disturbance Theater 2.0. Her solo and collaborative artworks have been presented in museums, galleries and biennials including the Thessaloniki Biennial in Greece,  Arnolfini Gallery, De La Warr Pavilion in London, Museum of Modern Art in New York, the ZKM in Karlrushe, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, the Centro Cultural del Bosque in Mexico City, the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto, the Centro Cultural de Tijuana, the Zero1 Biennial and the California Biennial. cárdenas was the recipient of the first ever James Tiptree Jr. fellowship. cárdenas was named as one of “7 bio-artists who are transforming the fabric of life itself” by io9.com.