Adjunct Announcement!

Great news, everyone!

I just heard from the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies at Western University (UWO) in London, Ontario that I have been hired to teach their undergraduate “Intro to Trans Studies” class this winter term!

I couldn’t be more excited for this opportunity, and hope to work even more with GSWS and the Queer Caucus at Western in the future. It’s nice to be recognized for one’s work, and to get the chance to make a course that focuses on what matters. Onwards and upwards!

-Elk

Chicago Zinefest 2023!!

Come join me this Saturday May 20th from 11-6PM at the Plumber’s Union Hall in Chicago! I’ve got new prints, pins, stickers, and two new, never-before-seen books! Also free “coming out” zines and $30 on-the-spot portrait commissions. Hope to see you soon!

Theory, Science, and Politics Conference at MSU

Excited to announce I’m participating in Michigan State University’s Graduate Conference in Philosophy on March 25th called “Theory, Science, and Politics”! The panel I’m on is “Gender, Race, Class, and Science”, which runs from 4:30PM to 6PM EST.

This time I’m actually presenting a paper, but it will later be integrated into my dissertation as a comic. It’s called “Minimalist Biological Sex and Evolutionary Existentialism”, which will act as an introduction to biological definitions of transness and move to support a diversity-expansive view of biology to affirm transness as a common variation that is not “unnatural” but instead found across animal and plant kingdoms. Will post more once I draw it out!

Thinking Trans // Trans Thinking Conference

Presented at the Thinking Trans // Trans Thinking Conference in Baltimore this Friday, October 28th. Check out the final program here!

Was really great to return to ideas around the philosophy of time and advocating for four-dimensionalism from a queer/trans and disability studies lens.

If you’d like to read my comic presentation, click here!

SFU Interdisciplinary Graduate Symposium Presentation

Hello, all! Please join me this Friday for my comics presentation on “Crip/Queer Temporalities and Potentials for Futurity” at the Simon Fraser University Humanities Interdisciplinary Graduate Symposium: Transformation and Change. It is both in-person and virtual, check out the whole schedule here.

Working on some great stuff for my dissertation expanding upon research completed in Jeremy Colangelo’s Disability Studies course at the Theory Centre this past year. Thank you for the inspiration and encouragement, Jeremy!

See you soon,

Elk

ICAF Virtual Conference Presentation

Presented my research yesterday at ICAF, the International Comic Arts Forum conference! Had a lovely roundtable discussion with manga scholar Deborah Shamoon, facilitated by Biz Nijdam and Frank Bramlett. Sadly, fellow presenter Jakub Jankowski couldn’t make it, but you can still check out his presentation on the ICAF website, as well as Deborah Shamoon’s presentation, here.
You can see the blog post I wrote about my work, 4dtime.space, here, and watch my presentation and the roundtable below. Thanks so much for having me, ICAF, it was a blast!

VCS Symposium Presentation

Join me for the virtual VCS Symposium, celebrating outgoing masters’ student’s research at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Visual and Critical Studies program.

Below is a link to my presentation that you can view on YouTube, on 4dtime.space, my newest comic, which is an interactive website on the philosophy of time. Enjoy!

Wish You Were Pier Book Release!

August 26th at 7:30PM in the back room at the Green Eye Lounge! Will be selling fresh-off-the-press first printings of my new comic, Wish You Were Pier, with the supplementary Mix CD “They Call the Wind Mariah”! Tonight only, comics for $5 with the mix CD for free. Cashapp, Venmo, and Square available.

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