Sex:Queer Research Network

SQRN is an inclusive research network for PGRs and academics at Warwick interested in the study of sex and queerness.
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[Sex:Queer Research Network @sexqueerrn]

Today we are at Irresistible Decay @Decay2025. We’re looking forward to Ash Stokoe’s paper on trans rights (9:45GMT) and the keynote by Sarah Lamble on anti-gender culture wars (11:30GMT). You can join the talks online by emailing [email protected]

[Polina Zelmanova @polinazelm]

The CFP for the @screeningsex SIG panel at @baftss 2025 is still open! Email or DM me for more information. Deadline is 29 November.

[Sex:Queer Research Network @sexqueerrn]

Thanks to all who joined us on the panel for yesterday’s screenings at @ScreeningRights! We had such a wonderful time discussing the films and hearing from the audience. And thank you for the hosts for putting together such a brilliant event!

[Sex:Queer Research Network @sexqueerrn]

Check out this irresistible CfP for a conference co-organised by our convenor @Airelle_Amdr titled Irresistible Decay!

[Irresistible Decay @Decay2025]

Join us on 7 March 2025 at the University of Warwick to explore the pervasiveness and irresistibility of decay imagery from the 18th century to today.

Submit your abstract by 30 Nov 2024 to [email protected].

Kindly founded by @HRCWarwick.

[Sex:Queer Research Network @sexqueerrn]

Join us at @ScreeningRights on 17 October at @warwickarts for ‘Queer Archives and Reenactments in Lebanon and Brazil’, screenings and Q&A partly guest curated by our own @dzacariotti

See you there and check out SRFF’s program!

https://t.co/PNRd1qfoxg

[Sex:Queer Research Network @sexqueerrn]

Check out this awesome Pride Edition zine from Reel Talk which features some film and tv recommendations from SQRN 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
@Airelle_Amdr @polinazelm @dzacariotti @AmanSinha57428

[Warwick Film & TV @WarwickFilmTV]

Our student blog, Reel Talk, have produced a Pride Edition of their zine! It's packed with articles from FTV students and special guests, including @sexqueerrn. There are physical copies in the Faculty of Arts building and you can read it digitally here: https://t.co/rKYEIyeFI3

[Sex:Queer Research Network @sexqueerrn]

Happening today at 1pm in FAB2.32!

[Sex:Queer Research Network @sexqueerrn]

Save the date for our second event and collaboration!

SQRN and cordially invite you to the round table “Queer Migrations: Perspectives, Practices, and Possibilities” on the 24th April at the Faculty of Arts, University of Warwick.

[Sex:Queer Research Network @sexqueerrn]

More queer comics! We will be attending @WarwickComicRes’s brilliant event on the translation of Heartstopper with its Italian translator Anna Martino and Dr Anna Lanfranchi!

[Warwick Comics Research Network @WarwickComicRes]

We're thrilled to announce our next event: Bridging Translation and Comics. We'll be joined by Heartstopper translator Anna Martino, who'll be in conversation with Dr. Anna Lanfranchi. The workshop is on 26th April, 5-6:30pm in FAB 4.76. Sign up here: https://t.co/UssNkUFWHj

[Sex:Queer Research Network @sexqueerrn]

Our Queer Migrations event is coming up on the 24 April! Join us at 1pm at FAB 2.32 University of Warwick. We're looking forward to a timely discussion. @SCAPVC @DC_Warwick @WarwickFilmTV

[Sex:Queer Research Network @sexqueerrn]

Save the date for our second event and collaboration!

SQRN and cordially invite you to the round table “Queer Migrations: Perspectives, Practices, and Possibilities” on the 24th April at the Faculty of Arts, University of Warwick.

[Sex:Queer Research Network @sexqueerrn]

Our friends @WarwickComicRes are organising a brilliant reading group on underground women’s comix, we will be there and we hope you will be too ! ❤️‍🔥

[Warwick Comics Research Network @WarwickComicRes]

We're excited to announce our next event, which is our first reading group of the year! We'll be meeting at 5pm on 1st March to discuss It Ain't Me Babe, the first comic book produced entirely by women, along with the introduction of Hillary Chute's Graphic Women. Links below.

[Sex:Queer Research Network @sexqueerrn]

@SCAPVC @WarwickFilmTV @WarwickSMLC @WarwickPgHub

[Sex:Queer Research Network @sexqueerrn]

Save the date for our second event and collaboration!

SQRN and cordially invite you to the round table “Queer Migrations: Perspectives, Practices, and Possibilities” on the 24th April at the Faculty of Arts, University of Warwick.

[Sex:Queer Research Network @sexqueerrn]

The event, featuring Dr Sarah Scuzzarello, Gabrie/le du Plessis and Matthew Abbey, will provide a platform for the presentation of the speaker’s cutting-edge research and an intellectual exchange on the complexities surrounding global queer migration.

[Warwick Comics Research Network @WarwickComicRes]

Thanks to everyone for your amazing participation in yesterday's event on Trans voices in comics in collaboration with @sexqueerrn!

It was a great opportunity to discuss and problematise notions of 'good', 'bad', and 'alright' trans objects together with our guest Dr. Ash Stokoe

[Sex:Queer Research Network @sexqueerrn]

Thank you to all those who attended! We were thrilled to see so many new faces. Thank you for your generosity and discussions!

[Sex:Queer Research Network @sexqueerrn]

Join us at 5pm today in Oculus OC1.02!

[Sex:Queer Research Network @sexqueerrn]

Join us and @WarwickComicRes for our Emerging Trans Voices in Comics reading group on the 7 February at 5pm.

No experience required, open to staff and students of all levels.

Email us at [email protected] to reserve your place and receive the extracts.

[Sex:Queer Research Network @sexqueerrn]

This conference might be of interest to our followers! Deadline is the 25 February.

[Broadly Conceived @BConceived]

We are delighted to release the CfP for the second @BConceived Conference! Taking place in July 2024 we're once again bringing together scholars working in reproduction. This year our theme is "Critical Reproduction Studies"

Download our CfP:
https://t.co/mkVbsRUuxZ

[Sex:Queer Research Network @sexqueerrn]

There’s still time to sign up to our event happening next Wednesday the 7th. Join us to talk about trans voices in comics.

No experience needed!

To receive the text extracts and register, email us at [email protected]

[Sex:Queer Research Network @sexqueerrn]

Join us and @WarwickComicRes for our Emerging Trans Voices in Comics reading group on the 7 February at 5pm.

No experience required, open to staff and students of all levels.

Email us at [email protected] to reserve your place and receive the extracts.

[Sex:Queer Research Network @sexqueerrn]

@DC_Warwick @WarwickFilmTV @SCAPVC @WarwickSMLC

[Sex:Queer Research Network @sexqueerrn]

Join us and @WarwickComicRes for our Emerging Trans Voices in Comics reading group on the 7 February at 5pm.

No experience required, open to staff and students of all levels.

Email us at [email protected] to reserve your place and receive the extracts.

[Sex:Queer Research Network @sexqueerrn]

'fold[s] transness into the visual economy of existing normative media', 'minimizing the threat that transgender embodiment poses to the dominant models of gender and sex upon which realist, mediated worlds rely' (Cáel M. Keegan, 2022).