All posts filed under: Queer Affect

Gender/Fucking: A conversation with Dr. Florence Ashley

August 14, 2024
by Chris Aino Pihlak
Academia / Collaboratory News / Queer Affect / Queer History / Trans History

Gender/Fucking: The Pleasures and Politics of Living in a Gendered Body is as bold and unclassifiable as its author. Blending poetry, erotica, personal reflections, and critical essays on transness, queer community, and the challenges of surviving under capitalism, this book is a must-read for anyone who lives in a body. Join Collaboratory friend Chris Aino Pihlak (she/her) as she sits down with the book’s author, Florence Ashley (they/them/that bitch), for a candid and far-reaching discussion on the book’s themes, and the experience of being a trans femme academic in 2024.

Sensory Portraits of Public Sex

May 15, 2023
by Alisha Stranges
Collaboratory News / Pussy Palace Project / Queer Affect

The Blackwood Gallery at the University of Toronto Mississauga recently released the latest issue of their serial broadsheet, SDUK. About the issue, The Blackwood writes: This milestone fifteenth issue, CONFIDING, addresses trust and collaboration: the tools, methods, and strategies collaborators use to build mutual confidence while working together. With an international slate of largely co-authored contributions, this issue models forms of experimental and collaborative authorship through letters, exercises, interviews, oral histories, and more. Among the […]