Ryan Conrad [email protected] www.faggotz.org Education: • PhD, Concordia University, Interdisciplinary Humanities Program. Dissertation: Affect and Imagination in the Age of Gay Respectability • 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. Courses Taught: • HIV/AIDS: Social, Cultural and Scientific Aspects of the Pandemic (2011-2012, teaching assistant, Concordia University) • Introduction to Sexuality Research (2013, 2014, Concordia University) • Queer Cinema II: AIDS Film and Video (2016, Concordia University) Recent & Upcoming Publications: Books/Catalogs • Against Equality: Queer Revolution, Not Mere Inclusion, editor (AK Press), April 2014. • Est-ce que ça vous dérange? Does This Bother You?, (RATS9 Galerie), October 2013. • 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), 9 May 2010. Anthology Chapters • "Against Equality, Against Inclusion" co-authored with Yasmin Nair & Karma Chávez, Decolonizing Sexualities: Transnational Perspectives and Critical Interventions (ConterPress), forthcoming 2015. • “That’s Right, We’re Here to Destroy Marriage!,” The Gay Agenda: Claiming Space, Identity, and Justice, forthcoming anthology, February 2014. • "Against Equality, Against Capitalism: Towards an Economic Critique of Gay Marriage," co-authored with Yasmin Nair and Karma Chavez, in After Homosexual: The Legacies of Gay Liberation, University of Western Australia Press, Melbourne Australia, December 2013. • “Gay Marriage and Queer Love,” Queering Anarchism (AK Press), January 2013. Articles/Essays • “Equality, Sameness, Difference: Revisiting the Equal Rights Amendment,”co- authored with Yasmin Nair & Karma Chávez, Women Studies Quarterly, forthcoming Fall 2015. • “MIXNYC: Three Decades Fanning the Flames of Queer Experimental Film and Video,” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, Duke University Press, Durham, North Carolina, Forthcoming 2015. • “The Future of Sex Work in North America,” The Portland Phoenix, Portland, Maine, 26 June 2014. • “You Must Marry!,” Out in Maine, Spring 2014. • “Performing Gender and Sexual Liberation: A Round Table,” Aparté Journal, No. 2, Spring 2013. • “The Defiant Prose of Sarah Schulman,” e-flux Journal, no.44, April 2013. • “Play, Creativity, and Social Movements: If I Can't Dance, It's Not My Revolution Book Review,” Socialism and Democracy Journal, 27:1, 207-210, 18 March 2013. • “Marching Toward Equality in the Military—But at What Cost?,” co-authored with Yasmin Nair and Karma Chavez, In These Times Magazine, 13 February 2013. • “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. • “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: • Outside the Frame Film Festival, Brava Theater, San Francisco, CA, Summer 2015. • Marked: Tattoos & Queer Identity, Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives, Toronto, ON, 9 April-29 May, 2015. • Entzaubert Film Festival, Schwarzer Kanal, Berlin, Germany, 2-6 July, 2014. • Queer City Cinema, Neutral Ground Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, 15-17 May, 2014. • Experiments in Cinema, Southwest Film Center at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM,14-20 April, 2014. • MIX NYC Queer Experimental Film Festival, New York, NY, 12-17 November 2013. • Est-ce que ça vous dérange? Does this Bother You?, RATS9 Gallery, Montreal, QC Canada, October 2013. • Queer Lisboa Film Festival, Lisbon, Portugal, 20-28 September 2013. • Rejected!!! Film Festival, Periwinkle Cinema and Artist Television Access, San Francisco CA, 19 June 2013. • Prison Nation: Posters on The Prison Industrial Complex, Center for the Study of Political Graphics, Los Angeles, CA, Winter/Spring, 2013. • British Film Institute’s London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, London, UK, 14-24 March, 2013. • Poster/VIRUS, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON, Canada, 28 November 2012; VAV Gallery, Montreal, QC Canada, 1 December 2012. • MIX NYC Queer Experimental Film Festival, New York, NY, 13-18 November 2012. • Sweltering Shelves Film Exhibition, The Dirt Palace, Providence RI, 30 August 2012. • Entzaubert Film Festival, Schwarzer Kanal, Berlin, Germany, August 2-5, 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. • 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. • Queer Images Film Fest, Citadel Theater, Edmonton, AB, Canada, June 16-17, 2010. • VIHsion Film Festival, Annual HIV/AIDS film festival, Comité Social Centre-Sud, Montreal, QC, Canada, November 28-29, 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. • Center for the Study of Political Graphics, Los Angeles, California. Recent & Upcoming Lectures / Presentations: • "Queer Imaginations: An Affective Politics Beyond Identity?," La Trobe University, Melbourne, VIC, 20 March, 2015. • “Revisiting AIDS and Its Metaphors,” University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, 19 March, 2015. • “Against Equality: Queer Revolution, Not Mere Inclusion,” Macalester College, St. Paul, MN, 16 April, 2014; Bureau of General Services—Queer Division, New York, NY, 19 April, 2014; Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT, 22 April, 2014; Concordia University, Montreal QC, 23 April, 2014; Queer Possibilities lecture series, Alteregos Café, Halifax, NS, 24 April, 2014; Calamus Books, Boston, MA, April 26, 2014; Bates College, Lewiston, ME, 2 May 2014; Maine College of Art, Portland, ME, 4 May 2014; University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 5 May 2014; University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 6 May 2014; Stories Books, Los Angeles, CA, 10 May, 2014; Baltimore Bookfestival, Baltimore, MD, 28 September, 2014; John Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 30 September, 2014; Hares & Hyenas, Melbourne, VIC, 13 February, 2015; Queer Thinking Day, Seymour Centre, Sydeny, NSW, 21 February, 2015; University of Auckland, NZ, 25 February, 2015; Freedom Shop, Wellington, NZ, 1 March, 2015; Black Star Books, Dunedin, NZ, 4 March, 2015; Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, 15 April, 2015; Burning Books, Buffalo, NY, 16 April, 2015; Flying Squirrel Community Centre, Rochester, NY, 17 April, 2015. • “Revisiting AIDS and Its Metaphors,” Universities Art Association of Canada Annual Conference, Banff, AB, Canada, 18 October 2013. • “AIDS, Art, Activism: Gran Fury & General Idea,” Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada, 24 January 2013. • “Against Equality: Prisons Will Not Protect You,” Glad Day Books, Toronto, ON Canada, 30 November 2012; Concordia Co-op Bookstore, Montreal, QC, Canada, 23 January 2013. • “On Equality,” University of Toronto, Toronto ON, Canada, 29 November 2012. • “Gay Marriage and the Gay Agenda,” Concordia University, Montreal, QC, 31 October, 2012. • “Against Equality and the Politics of Queer Cultural Production and Appropriation,” Radically Gay, The Life and Visionary Legacy of Harry Hay Conference, New York University, 27-30 September 2012. • “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.