CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Refereed conference presentations
2025
“Not an Idiot Box After All: Toronto’s Queer Televisual (Re)Imaginings (1972-1979).” Distributed Networks Symposium. Simon Fraser University, Burnaby. 19-20 June 2025.
“Coming into FOCAS: A New Initiative to Support Community Archives.” Co-presenters: Dr. Jennifer Douglas, Rohini Singh, Iori Khuhro, Lauren Wong. Association of Canadian Archivists. Carleton University, Ottawa. 10 June 2025.
“You’ve opened up too much already”: Disclosure and Visibility as Political Pedagogy in Michael, A Gay Son (1980). Pre-constituted panel: Reconsidering Visibility Politics in Queer & Trans Media Studies. Co-presenters: Lauren Herold, Tamara de Szegheo Lang, Dan Vena, Jada Gannon-Day. Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Chicago. 4 April 2025.
2024
“Toward A Pedagogy of the Common: Activating Vulnerable Media (Counter-)Archives in the Classroom.” Film and Media Studies Association of Canada (FMSAC). Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Concordia University (Loyola Campus), Montreal. 15 June 2024.
“‘I often think that I did absolutely nothing’: Rescuing Obsolete Media to Mend Our Queer Pasts.” Pre-constituted panel: ‘Objects to Hold Onto: Caring for Media Archives,’ with Cait McKinney, Carrie Rentschler, and Craig Robertson. Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS), Boston. 14 March 2024.
2023
“What’s On Those Reels?”: Accessing, Remembering, and Remediating the Archives of Queer Community Television in Canada.” Panel: Queer Archives and Archiving for New Historiographies. International Association for Media and History (IAMHIST), Future [of] Archives Conference, Université du Québec à Montréal. Montreal. 20 June 2023.
“The Affective Pull of Canada’s Local Televisual Pasts: Revisiting CITY-TV’s Speakers Corner (1990-2008).” Canadian Communication Association (CCA). Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, York University, Toronto. 2 June 2023.
“I’m Doing It Because It’s Fun!” Hybridity, Play, and Experimentation on Gay and Lesbian Community Television.” Pre-constituted Panel: “Learning and Detourning: Video & Televisual Experiments in the Long 1970s” with Charles Acland, Zoë Druick, and Owen Gottlieb. Film and Media Studies Association of Canada (FMSAC), Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, York University, Toronto. 28 May 2023.
“‘We’ve Come a Long Way Baby!’: 10% QTV And the (Re)Evolution of Canadian LGBTQ2+ Cable Access Programming (1995-2001).” Panel: “People, Places, Popular Media: Representing and Building Communities.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS), Denver. 12 April 2023.
2022
“Alternative News and Views on the Canadian Cable Airwaves: Queer and Feminist Reimaginings of Television in the 1970s-1980s.” Console-ing Passions, University of Central Florida. Orlando. Online. 24 June 2022. Watch here: https://stars.library.ucf.edu/cp2022/program/blue/20/
“‘To Tell the Gay Story Like It Is’: Reconstructing Local Televisual Histories of Gay and Lesbian Liberation in Canada.” Pre-Constituted Panel: “Material Cultures of Canadian Television” with Andrew Burke and Jennifer VanderBurgh, Film and Media Studies Association of Canada (FMSAC), Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. Online. 14 May 2022.
“To Watch Boldly What No One Has Watched Before: Discoveries, Kinship, and Joy in the Queer Television Archives.” Panel: “Flashes of Emotion.” Archival Kismet Conference, “Feeling(s) in the Archive: Emotions, Expressions, Experience,” Missouri State University. Online. 9 April 2022.
“HIV/AIDS On TV: Informing, Connecting, and Educating Communities on Canadian Public Access Television in the 1980s-1990s.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS), Chicago, United States. Online. 2 April 2022.
2021
“Tracing the History of LGBTQ2+ Public Access Programming in the Province of Ontario, Canada.” International Association for Media and History (IAMHIST). Online. 27 September 2021.
“Accessing Queer Televisual Pasts: Historicizing, Preserving, and Remediating Gayblevision (1980-1986).” Panel: Queering the Archive. Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS). Online. March 20, 2021.
2020
“More than Just Virtue Signalling: Artivism & Remediation in the Neoliberal University.” Sexuality Association (SSA). Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Western University, Ontario, Canada, May 2020, Cancelled due to COVID-19.
“‘Gayblevision, for Gay People by Gay People’: Queer Visions on Canadian Public Access TV (1980-1986).” Panel: Soundtrack and Screens: Claiming Space in Media and Institutions. Intersections | Cross-sections Graduate Conference: Changing the Current, York University. Toronto. 6 March 2020.
“Scavenging the Queer Archives: Finding, Filming, and Crafting Spaces of Belonging in Toronto.” Film and Media Studies Association of Canada (FMSAC). Graduate Colloquium: “Activity,” York University. Toronto. 28 February 2020.
2017
“Speaking Out Before We Are Dead: Queer AIDS Video Activism,” Panel: “Future Sensibilities: Mediation of Precarious Life.” European Network for Cinema and Media Studies (NECS), Paris, France. June 27, 2017.
Invited talks, workshops & roundtables
2025
“Curations and Circulations of Experimental Video.” Professional development workshop. Part of: Desire Lines: 50 years of Groupe Intervention Vidéo. Co-presented with Dr. Ylenia Olibet and Dr. Alanna Thain. McGill University, Montreal. 26 November 2025.
“Archival Transformations: Increasing the Visibility, Preservation, and Accessibility of Community-based Archives Across Canada and the US.” Archive/Counter-Archive Working Papers Series, Postdoctoral Roundtable with Dr. Ylenia Olibet, Dr. Mikhel Proulx, and Dr. Erika Biddle. Online. Watch here: https://vimeo.com/1053869416. 23 January 2025.
2024
“(Re)Activating and Mobilizing Queer and Feminist Audiovisual Archives in the Classroom: Archive/Counter-Archive’s Pedagogical Guides // (Re)Activer et Mobiliser les Archives Audiovisuelles Queer et Féministes dans la Salle de Classe : Les Guides Pédagogiques d’Archive/Contre-Archive.” AV/revoir les archives! Méthodes, théories et activations des archives queer et féministes, Cinémathèque Québécoise, Montréal. 28 August 2024.
“Queer Toronto on Cable: This Show May Be Offensive to Heterosexuals (1978-1979).” Moderated by Dr. Andrew Burke. Global Audiovisual Archiving Conference, TIFF Lightbox, Toronto. 12 March 2024.
2022
“Inside Chris Bearchell’s Notebooks.” Roundtable: Queerness, Archives & Resistance: Mass Media & Marginalization, Indexing Resistance: The Blood and Guts of Queer Protest Conference, Lula Lounge, Toronto. 23 June 2022.
2021
“Out of the Closets, and Into Your Homes!: Televising, Informing, and Connecting Queer Communities on Ontario’s Cable Access Channels (1972-2000).” Archive/Counter-Archive Working Papers Series. Online. Watch here: https://vimeo.com/643581606. 26 October 2021.
2020
“Fighting the Opioid Epidemic in the Ford Era: We Remember Them and Other Lessons from the HIV/AIDS Video Movement.” #StillNotMyPremier Teach-In, Studio for Media Activism and Critical Thought, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto. 28 January 2020.
Panels chaired
2025
“Reconsidering Visibility Politics in Queer & Trans Media Studies.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference. 4 April 2025. Co-chaired with Dr. Lauren Herold.
2021
“Queering the Archive.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference. 20 March 2021.
CURATION AND EVENTS
In addition to presenting on my research at different events, I have experience in event and media curation.
Curated talks
2020
Book Launch and Screening: Hinterland Remixed (2020) with author Andrew Burke. Pix Film Gallery. Toronto. 19 March 2020. Co-curated with Dr. Michael Marlatt. Cancelled due to COVID-19.
Archive/Counter-Archive Working Papers Series. Jenn E. Norton, “Imaging the Past.” York University. Toronto. Co-curated with Dr. Michael Marlatt. 4 February 2020.
The Studio for Media Activism and Critical Thought. “Arts-Based Research Practices beyond the Research Ethics Board.” Toronto Metropolitan University. Co-curated with Studio for Media Activism members. January 22, 2020.
2019
Archive/Counter-Archive Working Papers Series. Lisa Sloniowski, “Theorizing the Library: Feminist Special Collections and Counter-Librarianship.” York University. Toronto. Co-curated with Dr. Michael Marlatt. 26 November 2019.
Archive/Counter-Archive Working Papers Series. Jonathan Petrychyn, “An Archive of Fevers.” York University. Toronto. Co-curated with Dr. Michael Marlatt. 29 October 2019.
Curated screenings & media programs
2025
Screening: “Desire Lines.” Part of: Desire Lines: 50 years of Groupe Intervention Vidéo. Co-presented with Dr. Ylenia Olibet and Dr. Alanna Thain. McGill University. 26 November 2025.
2024
Screening: “Queer Toronto on Cable: This Show May Be Offensive to Heterosexuals (1978-1979),” Global Audiovisual Archiving Conference: Building Alliances (GAVA), TIFF Lightbox, Toronto. 12 March 2024.
2020
Laboratory of Feminist Memory: Laughter, Joy, and Pleasure. Curatorial project, co-curated with Dr. Marusya Bociurkiw. Cabaret-style salon on humour, joy, and pleasure in relation to queerness and feminism in Canada, Toronto. Online. 24 March 2020. Part of Pleasures of Resistance Series. https://studioformediaactivism.com/lfm3/
location, location: Queer/ying Disability & Access. Co-curated with Dr. Marusya Bociurkiw. Writers, performers, and mediamakers reflecting on pleasure, access, and place in all of its manifestations. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre. Toronto. February 25, 2020. Part of Pleasures of Resistance Series. https://studioformediaactivism.com/location-location-queer-ying-disability-access/
2019
Laboratory of Feminist Memory: Place and Displacement. Curatorial project, co-curated with Dr. Marusya Bociurkiw and Dr. Jonathan Petrychyn. Cabaret-style salon on the disappearance of lesbian and queer women’s spaces in Toronto, Glad Day Bookshop. Toronto. 19 March 2019. https://studioformediaactivism.com/lfm-place-and-displacement/
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