Ryan Conrad [email protected] www.faggotz.org Education: • PhD, Concordia University, Interdisciplinary Humanities Program, in progress. • MFA, Maine College of Art, Interdisciplinary Studio Program, 2010. Thesis Paper: Reviving the Queer Political Imagination. Thesis Exhibition: Cruising the Cartography. • B.A., Bates College, Department of Political Science and Department of Theater, 2005. Honors Thesis Paper: Art. Culture. Work. Recent & Upcoming Publications: Books/Catalogs • Against Equality: Prisons Will Not Protect You, editor, (AE Press), October 2012. • Disastrous Inclusion: Critical Reflections on the Legacy of DADT, guest editor, We Who Feel Differently Journal, No. 2, May 2012. • Against Equality: Don’t Ask to Fight Their Wars, editor, (AE Press), October 2011. • Against Equality: Queer Critiques of Gay Marriage, editor, (AE Press), September 2010. • Reviving the Queer Political Imagination, (Moth Press) Portland ME, 9 May 2010. • Future of the Past: Reviving the Queer Archives (Moth Press) Portland ME, 5 June 2009. • Out of the Closets and Into the Libraries, 2nd edition (Bangarang), April 2009. • Out of the Closets and Into the Libraries, 1st edition, (Bangarang), May 2005. Anthology Chapters • “That’s Right, We’re Here to Destroy Marriage!,” The Gay Agenda: Claiming Space, Identity, and Justice, forthcoming anthology, 2013. • “(Gay) Marriage and (Queer) Love,” Queering Anarchism (AK Press), forthcoming anthology, Fall 2012. Articles/Essays • “Against Equality: Don’t Ask to Fight Their Wars,” Fifth Estate Magazine, Vol. 47, No. 2, Spring 2012. • “This is Progress? Critical reflections on the repeal of DADT,” Out In Maine, Spring 2012. • “Forget Equality, I Want Justice!,” Out in Maine, June 2011. • “Against Equality: Defying Inclusion, Demanding Transformation in the U.S. Political Landscape,” We Who Feel Differently Journal, May 2011. • “Solidarity in the Archives: Hope and Inspiration from South Africa,” UltraViolet, Summer 2010. • “Against Equality, In Maine and Everywhere,” UltraViolet, December 2009. • “Radical Queer In Search of A History,” UltraViolet, April 2009. • “No Faggots Allowed,” UltraViolet, September 2008. • “Film Review: Homotopia,” UltraViolet, Fall 2007. Recent & Upcoming Exhibitions: • Sweltering Shelves, The Dirt Palace, Providence RI, 30 August 2012. • Entzaubert Film Festival, Schwarzer Kanal, Berlin, Germany, August 2-5, 2012. • Expose, Fresh Paint Gallery, Montreal, QC, 24 February - 17 Marcy, 2012. • Kansai Queer Film Festival, HEP HALL, Osaka, Japan, 17-19 September 2011; Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, 21-23 October, 2011. • Love in the Time of AIDS, Les Petit Versailles Gallery, New York City, NY, 16 September 2011. • Domestic Queens, FOFA Gallery, Concordia University. Montreal, QC, 4 March 2011. • Postcards from the Edge, Visual AIDS Annual Fundraiser Exhibition, CRG Gallery, New York City, New York, January 8, 2010. • Out of the Closet and Into the Street: Posters of LGBTQ Struggles & Celebrations, ONE Archives Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, July 3-September 26, 2010. • Entzaubert Film Festival, Schwarzer Kanal, Berlin, Germany, July 1-4, 2010. • MFA Thesis Show, Cruising the Cartography, Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, ME June 4 – July 2, 2010. • Queer Images Film Fest, Citadel Theater, Edmonton, AB, Canada, June 16-17, 2010. • Resistances, Concordia University, Interdisciplinary Humanities Graduate Studies Conference, April 15-16, 2010. • in+body, the 16th annual HIV/AIDS Art Exhibition at Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada, March 29-April 6, 2010. • MLK Day Film Festival, Bates College, Lewiston, Maine, January 18, 2010. • Postcards from the Edge, Visual AIDS Annual Fundraiser Exhibition, ZieherSmith Gallery, New York City, New York, January 8, 2010. • VIHsion Film Festival, Annual HIV/AIDS film festival, Comité Social Centre-Sud, Montreal, QC, Canada, November 28-29, 2009. • Future of the Past: Reviving the Queer Archives, solo curatorial show, community dialog, catalog and video, Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine, June 5–July 3, 2009. • Inter-, the 15th annual HIV/AIDS Art Exhibition at Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada, March 30–April 11, 2009. • Silence (still) = Death film series and lecture, Dooryard Gallery, Portland ME, 1 December 2008; Bates College, Lewiston ME, 3 December 2008. Permanent Collections: • LGBT Special Collections at the Jean Byers Sampson Center for Diversity in Maine, University of Southern Maine, Portland. • The Joseph A. Labadie Collection, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. • Collection Michel Chomarat, Centre des Ressources sur le Genre, Bibliothèque Municipale de Lyon, France. Recent & Upcoming Lectures / Presentations: • “Against Equality: Don’t Ask to Fight Their Wars,” Mess Hall, Chicago, IL, 21 April 2012; The New Museum, New York, NY, 21 June 2012; Williams College, Williamstown, MA, 4 October, 2012. • “(Gay) Marriage and (Queer) Love,” University of Southern Illinois, Carbondale, IL, 19 April 2012. • “Against Equality: Building Towards Something Greater Than,” After Homosexual: The Legacy of Gay Liberation Conference, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, 4 February 2012. • “AIDS, Art, Activism: Gran Fury & General Idea,” Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada, 19 January 2012; Otis College of Art, Los Angeles, CA, 30 January 2012. • “Against Equality: Don’t Ask to Fight Their Wars,” McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, 17 January 2012. • “Queers in Space: Queer Visibility in the Structures of the Everyday and the Extraordinary,” Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada, 20 July 2011. • “(Gay) Marriage and (Queer) Love,” Firestorm Books, Asheville NC, 2 March, 2011; University of North Carolina, Asheville NC, 3 March 2011; Cornish College, Seattle WA 1 April 2011; Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park CA, 12 April 2011; University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, 14 April 2011; University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 18 April 2011; University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, 20 April 2011. • Solidarity in the Archives: Historicizing Queer/Trans South Africans, Maine College of Art, 6 December 2010. • “(Gay) Marriage and (Queer) Love,” Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA, 3 October 2010; New York University, New York City, NY, 6 October 2010; University of Richmond, Richmond VA, 7 October 2010; Georgetown University, Washington DC, 16 November 2010. • “Cruising the Cartography,” Concordia University, Montreal QC, Canada, 15-16 April, 2010. • “Against Equality in Maine and Everywhere,” Bates College, Lewiston ME, 16 March 2010. • “GLBTQ Youth Safety Training,” Auburn Public School, Auburn ME, April 2009. • “Silence (still) = Death,” Dooryard Gallery, Portland ME, 1 December 2008; Bates College, Lewiston ME, 3 December 2008. • “Intersecting Oppression through a Queer Lens,” Thrive Conference, Lewiston ME, 2007; Dirigo High School Diversity Day, Dixfield ME, 2007, 2008. Recent & Upcoming Panel Participation • “Eat Your Fetish!: Against Equality and the Politics of Queer Cultural Production and Appropriation,” Panelist, Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies at City University of New York, New York, NY, 29 September 2012. • “What Makes Sex So Scandalous?,” Panelist, University of Southern Maine, Portland, ME, 17 April 2012. • Panelist, Against Equality Book Launch, Modern Times Books, San Francisco, CA, 16 April 2011. • Panelist, Domestic Queens Symposium, Montreal QC, Canada, 4 March 2011. • Panelist, In Dialog Series, McGill University, Montreal QC, Canada, 2 February 2011. • Panelist, Creating in the Queer Diaspora, College Art Association’s Annual Conference, New York, NY, 10 February 2011. • Panelist, Debating Marriage Equality, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME, 2 October 2010. • Moderator, “Community Forum with the Governor’s Commission on LGBT Youth,” Lewiston Public Library, Lewiston, ME, 7 October 2009. • Panelist, “Future of the Past: Reviving the Queer Archives Inter-generational Panel Discussion,” Maine College of Art, Portland, ME, 18 June 2009. • Panelist, “Strategizing Queer Insurgency!: re-centering marginalized queer issues,” Montreal Anarchist Bookfair, Montreal, QC, 17 May 2009. • Panelist, Maine CDC LGBTQ Health Summit, Youth: Violence, Suicide and Other Disparities, Augusta, ME, May 2008. Workshops: • “Re-thinking Same Sex Marriage,” Queer and Trans Youth Summit, University of Southern Maine Lewiston/Auburn Camps, Lewiston, ME, 20 October 2012. • “Learning from the Quebec Student Movement,” Burdock Gathering, Starks, ME, 27 August 2012. • “Radical Queer History, Inter-generationality, and Gay Marriage,” Queer Youth Space, Seattle WA, 2 April 2011. • “Reviving Our Archives – Putting Memory into Action,” Maine Youth Activist Gathering, Turner ME, April 2009; PRYSM, Portland ME, 14 July 2009. • “Warning: Gay Marriage Campaigns Can Be Deadly,” National Conference on Organized Resistance, American University, Washington D.C., 9 March 2008. Interviews • “Ryan Conrad, Against Equality,” Dirty Queer Magazine, Sydney, Australia, Issue 5, September 2012. • “Saving Himself From Marriage,” Xtra, Toronto, ON, 15 January 21, 2012. • “Against Equality: Queer Critiques of Gay Marriage,” Deviant Productions, August, 2011. • “Pervers/Cité,” Queer Corps Radio Program, CKUT 90.3FM, Montreal, QC, 1 August 2011. • “Working Against Equality: A Closer Look at Queers Who Oppose Gay Marriage,” The Good Men Project, 21 April 2011. • “'Equality' beyond marriage - An interview with activist Ryan Conrad,” Seattle Gay News, Seattle WA, 1 April 2011. • Interview for the We Who Feel Differently