The Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies

05/14/2026

Join us on June 5th for our annual QTRL Artist Showcase, featuring an excerpt from QTRL Artist-in-Residence Theo Cuthand’s Unsettled Climate. This is a ticketed event, so please ensure you RSVP through Eventbrite. Link in bio and details below 🔗

Artist Showcase: Theo Cuthand’s Unsettled Climate

Friday, June 5, 2026
3:30pm - 4:30pm
Robarts Library, room RL 3-025
130 St George St

Theo Cuthand will be screening an excerpt from their upcoming documentary film, Unsettled Climate, which chronicles the experiences of trans climate-disaster survivors — people whose lives have been altered by fires, floods and other natural disasters. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Cuthand.

05/01/2026

Catch Maya El Helou, former SDS grad and current lecturer for SDS, in conversation with Jasbir K. Puar for Puar's new coauthored novel, This Death Is Not One.

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/this-death-is-not-one-jasbir-k-puar-in-conversation-with-maya-el-helou-tickets-1987699952064

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We are honoured to host the inimitable Jasbir K. Puar, author of The Right to Maim and Terrorist Assemblages, for the launch of This Death Is Not One. Join us on May 7th for a conversation with Maya El Helou! Copies of the book will be available at the launch.

This Death is Not One, published by Bilna’es, marks the first translation into Arabic of the chapter “Will Not Let Die”: Debilitation and Inhuman Biopolitics in Palestine, alongside the postscript of The Right to Maim. Not simply a reissue of previously published work or a translation, This Death is Not One includes a new preface from Jasbir K. Puar revisiting the right to maim from within this moment of genocide in Gaza that interrogates the new vectors of living and dying under settler-colonialism, and how maiming, in fact, speaks of extermination; an introduction by Nasser Abourahme reflecting on the book’s stakes in the present and its reception in the past, alongside searing analysis of genocide in excess of the law, and what this reveals and forecloses in how we understand the juridical body and militancy in the wake of Zionism; and original drawings by Xaytun Ennasr that inscribe a relation between land and body mapped through cosmological patterns tracing the relation between martyrs, who are referred to as moons, and the moon, a symbol for martyrdom in Palestine.

04/16/2026

🎉 Congratulations to Brenda Cossman, former Director of the Bonham Centre, on receiving the Carolyn Tuohy Impact on Public Policy Award!

Read about Cossman’s work and the award at the link in our bio.

04/06/2026

Watch Q***r Directions 2026: Trans and Q***r Resistance featuring Charlene A. Carruthers, Karma Chávez, Emi Koyama, and Sayan Bhattacharya here!

Q***r Directions is an annual symposium at The Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies addressing ideas and pressing issues in q***r, trans, and sexuality...

04/06/2026

We are thrilled to announce the release of the video of our 2026 Q***r Directions Symposium: Trans and Q***r Resistance! You can find the link to our YouTube channel in our bio 🎥🔗

Q***r Directions is an annual symposium at The Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies addressing ideas and pressing issues in q***r, trans, and sexuality studies, politics, and culture. This year’s theme is Trans & Q***r Resistance with speakers Karma Chávez, Charlene A. Carruthers, Sayan Bhattacharya, and Emi Koyama. This symposium focused on creative, intellectual, activist, and grassroots organizing traditions and social justice and movement work that both addresses the ongoing harms and material violences of everyday life, but also organizes toward and imagines the possibility for q***r, trans, black, brown, and indigenous lifeworlds. Our esteemed panelists joined us to raise similar questions, press on other ones, and brought their own work to bear on what it means to do this work now.

03/13/2026

Join the Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies April 17th, 2026 in hosting storyteller, activist, and educator Eli Clare for his virtual keynote presentation for the Q***r-Class Relations Conference. Clare’s work critically investigates disability and q***r/transness through an exploration of the interweaving of race, class, gender, sexuality, disability, and environmental justice. This keynote is part of the Q***r-Class Relations Conference hosted by CLAGS: The Centre for LGBTQ Studies at the City University of New York, addressing the intersection of q***r and trans experience and social class.
SDS is honoured to be a co-host of this conference. Please join us for an in-person reception with refreshments followed by a viewing of Eli Clare’s virtual keynote presentation and a Q&A. If you are unable to attend the in-person event, you can register virtually.
Register here!

If you have any accessibility needs or requested accommodations, please email [email protected].
This event will have live transcription available.
Please find accessible entrances for the Paul Cardario Centre here.

Program:
5-6pm: In-person reception with refreshments @ the Paul Cadario Conference Centre (15 King's College Circle, Toronto)
6-7:15 pm: Hybrid Eli Clare presentation and Q&A

Speaker Bio
Eli Clare is a white, disabled, and genderq***r storyteller and educator. His books include the 2025 Unfurl: Survivals, Sorrows, and Dreaming; the award-winning Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure; The Marrow’s Telling; Words in Motion; and Exile and Pride: Disability, Q***rness, and Liberation. For his work on disability and q***rness/transness, Clare received the 2025-26 Brudner Prize.

03/02/2026

Happening this week! Don't miss these two incredible events. Register at the link in our bio.

02/23/2026

Happening this Thursday! Register at the link in our bio.

I am excited to announce that our upcoming Transgressing Disciplines: a Black trans studies speaker series, curated by Dr. Qui Alexander, will take place February 26, 2026, from 4:30PM - 6:00PM, in the Paul Cardario Conference Centre at University College (15 King's College Circle).

This year, we welcome troizel xx who will be presenting: how to do things with big black d*cks: political/theological vignettes of pre-op black trans femininity, fetishism, labor, + performance

Click the link in our bio for registration and more event details.

See you there!

02/19/2026

We’re excited to announce the upcoming release of Tatiana Ferguson’s Rings & Tingz dating game, developed as part of her Community Leader-in-Residence fellowship with the QTRL 💘 Head to our link in bio to preorder & for more info 🔗

02/09/2026

QTRL Artist-in-Residence Theo Cuthand was interviewed by Sean McNeely for A&S News! 👏 Head to the link in our bio to read the full article. 🔗 📰