Scholar Series

• Meeting This Moment: Mental Health in a Time of Anti-Trans Legislation, Featuring: Sarah Ketchen Lipson, Associate Professor of Health Law, Policy, & Management and PI, Healthy Minds Network, School of Public Health; Hyeouk “Chris” Hahm, Professor and Associate Dean for Research, School of Social Work; Qimin Liu, Assistant Professor, Psychological & Brain Sciences and Quantitative Psychopathology Lab Director, College of Arts and Sciences; Gabriel Murchison, Assistant Professor, Community Health Sciences, School of Public Health – Friday, February 20, 12 pm – 1:30 pm; Virtual
• Your Voice on T: A Presentation and Discussion on the Anatomical, Acoustical, and Self-Perceptual Effects of Exogenous Testosterone on Speech Production, Featuring: Cara Stepp, Professor, Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, Sargent College; Professor of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering; Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine; Allison Aaron, Doctoral Research Assistant in the STEPP LAB and Student in Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, Sargent College – Friday, March 20, 12 pm – 1:15 pm; Virtual
• False Biology, Real Harm: The Impact on Intersex, Transgender, and Nonbinary People, Featuring: Shoumita Dasgupta, Professor of Medicine, Biomedical Genetics Section, Assistant Dean of Diversity & Inclusion, Director of Graduate Studies, Genetics and Genomics, Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine; Kim Zayhowski, Assistant Professor of Medical Sciences and Education and Assistant Program Director, Master’s Program in Genetic Counseling, Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine – Friday, April 24, 12 pm – 1:15 pm; Virtual

• Meeting This Moment: State and Federal Legal Landscape After Skrmetti and Mahmoud, Featuring: Aziza Ahmed, Professor of Law and N. Neal Pike Scholar; Linda C. McLain, Robert Kent Professor of Law; Carl G. Streed, Associate Professor of Medicine/GIM; Research Director, GenderCare Center at BMC; Michael Ulrich, Associate Professor, School of Public Health and School of Law; and Darien Williams, Assistant Professor, School of Social Work – Friday, September 19, 11:30 am – 1 pm, Virtual
• Health, Policy, and Politics: Advances, Challenges, and Potential Opportunities, Featuring: Kevin Nguyen, Assistant Professor, Department of Health Law, Policy, and Management, School of Public Health – Friday, October 10, 12 – 1:15 pm, Virtual
• Explaining Differences in Anti-LGBTQ+ Backlash in Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean, Featuring: Timothy Longman, Professor of International Relations and Political Science and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Pardee School of Global Studies; and Taylor Boas, Professor of Political Science and Latin American Studies and Department Chair of Political Science, College of Arts & Sciences – Friday, November 14, 12 – 1:15 pm, Virtual
• The Past and Future of LGBTQ+ Prejudice, Featuring: Victor Kumar, Associate Professor, Philosophy; Director, Graduate Placement; and Director, Center for Philosophy & History of Science, College of Arts & Sciences, Friday, December 12, 12 – 1:15 pm, Virtual

• Remembering Confucian Homoeroticism, Featuring Peng Yin, Assistant Professor of Ethics, School of Theology – Friday, February 7, 12 – 1:15 pm, Virtual
  
• “My Gender is Lesbian”: Lesbian Feminism for the TikTok Generation, Featuring Cati Connell, Associate Professor of Sociology and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies – Friday, March 21, 12 – 1:15 pm, Virtual
  
• “The way that we survive is to be connected”: Social media and eating disorders risk among LGBTQ+ young adults, Featuring Allegra Gordon, Assistant Professor, Community Health Sciences, School of Public Health – Friday, April 4, 12 – 1:15 pm, Virtual

• Coming Out and Pushing Forward: Learning From LGBTQIA+ Latines, Featuring Luis R. Alvarez-Hernandez, Assistant Professor, School of Social Work – Friday, October 11, 12 – 1:15 pm, Virtual
• Apprehending Queer Forced Migrants: More than ‘Adding Queer and Stir’, Featuring Sandra McEvoy, Clinical Associate Professor of Political Science and Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies – Friday, October 25, 12 – 1:15 pm, Virtual
• LGBTQ+ Youth Experiencing Homelessness: Health Impacts and a Call to Action, Featuring Avik Chatterjee, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine – Friday, November 1, 12 – 1:15 pm, Virtual
• Contributions from the LGBTQ+ communities to the end of the HIV epidemic, FeaturingCarlos E. Rodriguez-Diaz, Professor and Chair, Department of Community Health Sciences, School of Public Health – Friday, December 6, 12 – 1:15 pm, Virtual

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