Pride Culture Club is a series of queer cultural events hosted by the Library and the Pride Network. In honour of LGBTQIA+ History Month, our final event for 2025 will be a special research symposium, generously sponsored and supported by the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Running across three sessions, this event will feature a rich array of presentations by academic staff and postgraduate students from the Faculty, exploring LGBTQIA+ knowledges, histories, identities, and experiences. Attendees may register for all three sessions or just one if they prefer.

Session 1: Queer encounters with institutions (1:30 - 2:10pm)

• Sophie Cotton: Queering the EBA: Transgender lives and the University of Sydney workplace
• Dr Allen George: Political apologies to LGBTQIA+ communities
  • Content warning: Discussion of discrimination, homophobia, and transphobia 

Session 2: Queer media and digital cultures (2:10 - 3pm)

• Emma Zhang: The power of the international fandom: Changes in representation and diversity in Thailand's boys love series
  • Content warning: Discussion of sexual violence, discrimination, and homophobia
• Dr Nayeli Torres-Montenegro: TikToxic: The conception of gender and its medicalisation through ‘live’ culture
  • Content warning: Discussion of transphobia
• Dr Vek Lewis: Navigating family, desire, diaspora, and queer/trans (un)knowing in 'Sort Of'

Afternoon tea: Queer Food (3 - 3:30pm)

• This event is being catered by Queer Food, a social enterprise which tells LGBTQIA+ stories through food, creates jobs for queer and trans people, and reinvests profits to improve health outcomes and advocate for the community. 

Session 3: Queer (sub)cultures and communities: Overcoming invisibility and stigma (3:30 - 4:30pm)

• Hymn Sakol Sopitarchasak: Homepars and drug consumption among gay men in Asian cities: Rethinking community and pleasure beyond minority stress
  • Content warning: Discussion of drug use and sexual acts
• Abdullah Faqih: Queer and Muslim narratives in New Order Indonesia (1966-1998): Navigating inner conflict and challenging religious interpretations
• Dr Mandy Henningham and Peiyun Li: Making bi+ visible: A discussion panel
  • Content warning: Discussion of discrimination and biphobia

Please note that this event will be photographed. 

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Contact librarypride.support@sydney.edu.au for more information.