Ryan Conrad is an Adjunct Research Faculty member in the Women's and Gender Studies program at Carleton University. From 2019-2022 he was a SSHRC postdoctoral fellow in Cinema & Media Studies with Archive/Counter-Archive at York University in Toronto. From 2017-2019 he was a postdoctoral fellow at the AIDS Activist History Project housed in the Sociology and Anthropology department at Carleton University. He holds a PhD from the Centre for the Interdisciplinary Study of Society and Culture at Concordia University and an MFA in interdisciplinary studio arts with a focus on film, video, and performance from the Maine College of Art .
Conrad is the co-founder of Against Equality, a digital archive and publishing collective based in the United States and Canada. He is the editor of the collective’s anthology series that are compiled together in Against Equality: Queer Revolution, Not Mere Inclusion (2014). He has also contributed single-author and co-authored chapters to several anthologies including: Between Certain Death and a Possible Future: Queer Writing on Growing up with the AIDS Crisis (2021), Queer and Trans Migrations: Dynamics of Detention, Deportation, and Illegalization (2020), Decolonizing Sexualities: Transnational Perspectives, Critical Interventions (2016) The Gay Agenda (2014), and Queering Anarchism (2013). He is also the Chair of the Sexuality Studies Association.
His written work has appeared in scholarly and activist publications including: American Quarterly, Women Studies Quarterly, JumpCut, Auto/Biography Studies, Canadian Journal of Film Studies, e-flux, Aparté, QED: A Journal of LGBTQ Worldmaking, Upping the Anti, Scholar & Feminist, Socialism & Democracy, Drain, We Who Feel Differently, Little Joe, UltraViolet, In These Times, TruthOut, and Fifth Estate.
Experience
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2020–presentAdjunct professor, Feminist Institute for Social Transformation, Carleton University
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2019–2022SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Cinema & Media Studies , York University
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2019–2021Part-time Faculty, Interdisciplinary Studies in Sexuality, Concordia University
Education
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2017Concordia University, PhD
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2010Maine College of Art, MFA
Publications
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2022Generated Vulnerability: Male Sex Workers, Third-Party Platforms, & Data Security (Chapter), Queer Data
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2022Lessons Learned, Lessons Shared: Doing Research in Collaboration with Sex Workers and Sex Worker Organizations,, Facilitating Community Research for Social Change: Case Studies in Qualitative, Arts-Based and Visual Research
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2021Cable Access Queer: Revisiting Toronto Living With AIDS 1990-91, Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media
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2021Looking for Gaëtan (Chapter), Between Certain Death and a Possible Future: Queer Writing on Growing up with the AIDS Crisis
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2020O Canada: HIV Not Welcome Here (Chapter), Queer and Trans Migrations: Dynamics of Detention, Deportation, and Illegalization
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2016Revisiting AIDS and Its Metaphors, Drain
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2014That’s Right, We’re Here to Destroy Marriage! (Chapter), The Gay Agenda: Claiming Space, Identity, and Justice
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2014Against Equality: Queer Revolution, Not Mere Inclusion,
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2013Gay Marriage and Queer Love (Chapter), Queering Anarchism
Grants and Contracts
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2021COVID-19, social safety nets, and sex work in the capital region
- Role:
- Co-Investigator
- Funding Source:
- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
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2021Viral Interventions: Artists, Communities and AIDS Activist Media
- Role:
- Collaborator
- Funding Source:
- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
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2020After-images and urban spaces: lesbian, gay and queer visible presence in Montreal (1950-1990)
- Role:
- Co-Investigator
- Funding Source:
- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
Professional Memberships
- Chair, Sexuality Studies Association
- Member, Film Studies Association of Canada
- Member, Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities
- Member, Canadian Studies Network
- Website
- Article Feed
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