[Commlist] Indexing Resistance: The Blood & Guts of Queer Protest in Canada / Symposium & Exhibition

/Indexing Resistance: The Blood & Guts of Queer Protest in Canada. 
//Toronto, June 24^th -25^th  2022/

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/Symposium: Lula Lounge /(1585 Dundas St W, Toronto, ON M6J 1T9)

/Exhibition: //the plumb //(/1655 Dufferin St Basement, Toronto, ON M6H 3L9)

/Indexing Resistance/ is an interdisciplinary 2- day symposium at Lula 
Lounge with an accompanying month-long exhibition at the plumb. By 
reflecting on relationships between the visual, the scholarly, and 
preservation, /Indexing Resistance//presents/ papers and artwork 
exploring the diversity of resistance and protest in queer communities 
in Canada that focuses on untold, overlooked or forgotten histories. 
Keynote speaker, Julietta Singh discloses in her book /No Archive Will 
Restore You/ (Punctum Books, 2018) that the concept of the archive is 
bodily, where memory and trauma are intertwined into the fabric of 
flesh. Singh’s approach to queerness, race, the archive, and resistance 
address these complexities by suggesting that knowledge (corporeal or 
intellectual) cannot repair the past.

     While Gay Liberation has become historically synonymous with the 
Stonewall Riots, in Canada, the context derives from several culminating 
factors, such as the Canadian government’s use of “the fruit machine” 
(1950s), the “We Demand” rallies (1970s), and the Bathhouse Raids 
protest (1980s). We reflect on what has been overlooked and omitted. 
Archives, such as The ArQuives (Toronto), the Two-Spirit Archives 
(Winnipeg), Transgender Media Lab (Ottawa), Queer Heritage Initiative 
(New Brunswick), and the Sexual Representation Collection at U of T 
(Toronto) are highlighted over the two days to share their holdings and 
create dialogue.

      By orienting ourselves in opposition to hegemonic power, 
queerness views the past, present, and future as struggle. As literary 
scholar, Kathy Acker writes “[w]ithout language, the only people the 
rebels can kill are themselves” (/Blood & Guts in High School/, 1989). 
We take up that call by directly facing the blood and guts of queer 
resistance by approaching historical materials through 
inter-generational discourses to support and develop new points of view 
on queer resistance.

*Schedule*

/Indexing Resistance: The Blood & Guts of Queer Protest/


*Day One*

Lula Lounge (1585 Dundas St W, Toronto, ON M6J 1T9)

_Thursday June 23^rd , 2022 8:30am to 9pm_


_Session 1: _10am-11am: /Roundtable. Queerness, Archives & Resistance: 
Mass Media & Marginalization/. Students include Emily Barton, Leslie 
Corbay, Axelle Demus. Chair: John Greyson

_Session 2: _11:05-12:05pm Keynote: /No Archive Will Restore You,/ 
Julietta Singh

_Session 3: _12:10-1:15pm Lunch

_Session 4:_1:20pm-3:35pm /Artists in the Archive/. Kelly McCray, Keith 
Cole, Natalie Wood, and Pamila Matharu. Chair: the plumb

_Session 5: _2:40pm-3:40pm. /Intersecting Queer Archives/. Meredith Batt 
(Queer Heritage Initiative of New Brunswick) and Evie Ruddy (Trans Media 
Lab, Carlton University). Chair: Craig Jennex

_Session 6: _3:45pm-4pm Housekeeping/announce opening—end of Conference 
Day__

Evening Event _7-9pm Art Opening_ at /The Plumb Gallery. /1655 Dufferin 
St Basement, Toronto, ON M6H 3L9. Artists include Keith Cole, Pamila 
Matharu, Patrick DeCoste, Kelly McCray, Andy Fabo, Natalie Wood, 
Courtnay McFarlane, Florence Yee, Deion Squires-Rouse, Jamie Ross, Kalil 
Haddad, Muhammad EL Khairy, Shake n’ Make.

*Day Two*__

Lula Lounge (1585 Dundas St W, Toronto, ON M6J 1T9)

_June 24^th , 2022 9am to 4pm_


_Session 1: _9:30am-10:30am. /LGBTQ2S+ Archives: training the next 
generation of archivists/ with Dennis Findlay, Raegan Swanson and Lucie 
Handley-Girard. Chair: Pamila Matharu

_Session 2: _10:25am-11:55pm. /Archiving Porn/Porning Archives/: Thomas 
Waugh, Abdullah Qureishi, Daniel Laurin, Patrick Keilty. Chair: Mary Bunch

_Session 3: _12pm-1:15pm. Lunch

_Session 4: _1:20pm-2:30pm. /Queering Memory, Seeing the Past Now: /Andy 
Fabo, Courtnay McFarlane, Anton Wagner. Chair: Julietta Singh

_Session 5: _2:35pm-3:10pm. /2Spirit Archives:/Albert McLeod & Brett 
Lougheed. Chair: Schem Bader

_Session __6: _3:15-3:30pm. Announcements, Thank you’s—end of Conference 
Day __


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