Double Book Launch: The Regulation of Queer, Trans and Disabled Bodies

Fri May 10 2024 at 06:00 pm to 08:00 pm

World Arts Centre | Vancouver

SFU Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies
Publisher/HostSFU Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies
Double Book Launch: The Regulation of Queer, Trans and Disabled Bodies
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Join us for an event with authors Gary Kinsman and A.J. Withers
About this Event

Join us to hear from Gary Kinsman, author of The Regulation of Desire, Third Edition: Queer Histories, Queer Struggles and A.J. Withers, author of Disability Politics and Theory and creator of the short film The Unicorn Eradication Project: A Story About Eugenics about their new projects.

The authors will discuss how queer and disabled bodies are surveilled and controlled, how members of these communities have been complicit in perpetuating colonialism, neoliberalism and white supremacy, the increasing right-wing attacks on these communities and need for abolitionist, decolonial, anti-racist, queer/trans liberation and disability justice movements.

What’s being launched:

Book 1:

  • by Gary Kinsman, Third Edition

Book 2:

  • by A.J. Withers, Revised and Expanded Edition

Film:

  • The Unicorn Eradication Project


Doors open at 5:30pm


Authors’ Bios
Gary Kinsman

Gary Kinsman is a queer liberation, anti-oppression, and anti-capitalist activist and the co-author of The Canadian War on Queers: National Security as Sexual Regulation.



A.J. Withers

A.J. Withers is the Ruth Wynn Woodward Jr. Chair in Gender, Sexuality & Women’s Studies at SFU. They are long-time homelessness & housing community organizer and author of Fight to Win: Inside Poor People’s Organizing.


Access Information

ASL-English interpretation

Live captioning

Wheelchair accessible (2nd floor – elevator & stairs), gender neutral bathrooms

Access inquires contact: [email protected]

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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

World Arts Centre, 149 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, Canada

Tickets

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