Scholar Series

Queer Resistance

• The Gayl Jones School of Queer Care: Cat Lawson and Consequence in Corregidora, Featuring Ianna Hawkins Owen, Assistant Professor of English and African American & Black Diaspora Studies
• Mental health inequalities among trans and nonbinary college students: Findings from the national Healthy Minds Study and the role of discriminatory and protective campus policies, Featuring Sarah Ketchen Lipson, Associate Professor in the Department of Health, Law, Policy, and Management at the School of Public Health
• What Does It Take to Breach the Cisheteronormativity of the Modern Language Classroom?, Featuring Ashley R. Moore, Assistant Professor of TESOL in the Department of Language and Literacy Education

Queer Resistance

• Toward a Global Queer Theory: On Writing as an LGBTQIA+ Scholar of Color and Building Transnational Solidarities, Featuring Petrus Liu, Featuring Petrus Liu, Associate Professor of Chinese & Comparative Literature and of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
• From Romer to Obergefell: The Supreme Court’s Rewriting of the Grounds for Protecting LGBTQIA+ Rights. And What’s Next After Dobbs?, Featuring James E. Fleming, The Honorable Paul J. Liacos Professor of Law
• Voices of transgender and nonbinary adolescents from across the United States: The influence of proximal and distal contexts on social-emotional wellbeing,Featuring Melissa K. Holt, Associate Professor in Counseling Psychology and Director of Kilachand Honors College

Queer Representation & Visibility

• ‘Dyke Bars Never Last’: Gentrification, Critical Nostalgia and the Commemoration of Lost Dyke Bars, featuring Japonica Brown-Saracino, Professor and Chair of Sociology
• Risk and Resistance: How Feminists Transformed the Law and Science of AIDS, featuring Aziza Ahmed, Professor of Law and R. Gordon Butler Scholar in International Law, School of Law
• “If I was straight and white it would be different: they would believe me”: The experiences of gay Latino and/or Black male sexual assault survivors when disclosing being sexually assaulted, featuring Daniel Jacobson López, Assistant Professor, BU School of Social Work and Faculty Affiliate, Center for Innovation in Social Work & Health

Queer Representation & Visibility

• Borderlanding Academic Researchers: A Range of Whisper Networks, featuring Laura M. Jiménez, Associate Dean of Equity, Diversity & Inclusion, Wheelock College of Education & Human Development and Senior Lecturer in Literacy Education
• Visibly Hidden: Exploring Queer Masculinities in 1950s Popular Music, featuring Vincent L. Stephens, Associate Dean of Diversity and Inclusion, College of Arts & Sciences and Lecturer in the School of Music
• Transmasculinity on Television, featuring Patrice Oppliger, Assistant Professor of Communication
• Assessing and Addressing the Well-Being of LGBTQ Populations, featuring Carl Streed Jr., Assistant Professor at Boston University School of Medicine and the Research Lead for the Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery at Boston Medical Center

Identity & Activism

• Queer Art, the Christian Right, and the Aesthetics of Literalism featuring Anthony Petro, Associate Professor of Religion and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Director of the Health Humanities
• “Conscience, not Bigotry” and Other Framings in Conflicts over LGBTQ+ Rights and Religious Liberty featuring Linda C. McClain, Robert Kent Professor of Law
• The Caged Bird Sings: Welcoming Identities through Music-making featuring André De Quadros, Professor of Music, Music Education and affiliate faculty in African American Studies, African Studies Center, American & New England Studies Program, Center for Antiracist Research, Center for the Study of Asia, Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies, Initiative on Cities, Institute for the Study of Muslim Societies and Civilizations, Latin American Studies, Pardee School Initiative on Forced Migration and Human Trafficking, Prison Education Program, and The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future

Queering Pedagogy & Education

• Queering the Field: Fostering a More Equitable Experience for LGBTQ+ Researchers in Field-Based STEM Research featuring Christopher A. Schmitt, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology and Biology
• Creating Early Childhood Environments and Curriculum that Welcome and Support Children with Gender Expansive Behavior, and Families with LGBTQIA+ Members featuring Ellie Friedland, Associate Clinical Professor in Early Childhood Education
• Challenges in Queer Theological Education: The Scholar’s Identity, the Student’s Success, and the Curriculum’s Failure featuring Luis Menéndez-Antuña, Assistant Professor of New Testament
• LGBTQIA+ Teacher Wellbeing: A Duoethnography featuring Dr. Tawnya Smith and Dr. Kính T. Vũ, both Assistant Professors of Music, Music Education