UCLA QGrad

Q-Grad 2022 is just a few days away! Join us for our keynote conversation with Aimee Bahng, Mika Tosca, Joshua Javier Guzmán at UCLA this Friday! For those who won’t be able to make it, we will be recording the event to share with you all afterwords 💛. See you soon! Registration link in bio.

Please join us at UCLA on Friday, May 27th for the 25th annual LGBTQ Studies’ graduate student research conference: Q-Grad! These year’s theme is Q***r Temporalities: Resisting straight~forwards and will feature six student panels, followed by a keynote conversation between Mika Tosca, Aimee Bahng, and Josh Guzmán, concluding with a reception at the UCLA Botanical Gardens. Hope to see you there! Registration is free and open to all. Please visit https://qgradconference.com/ for more information on panels and registration. Registration link is in our bio as well.❤️

Our CFP submission period closes in 5 days! Have you submitted your proposal yet? Hope to hear from you soon and please don’t hesitate to reach out to the Q-Grad team with any questions! 💜 🌈

Q-Grad 2022 CFP is now live! Calling all Graduate and PhD students interested in exploring questions of time in a q***r(ed) context. Performances, papers, presentations, and workshops all welcome! Application and full description here: https://forms.gle/qXgvPnDBtyqPB9Y6A.

Q-Grad returns on May 27th, 2022! More information coming soon. Hope to see you there! 🌈 ***rstudies 🌈

Meet QGrad featured artist, Laura Chow Reeve of Laura is a q***r mixed Chinese femme writing and drawing in Richmond, VA. She is currently writing a novel, studying Transformative Justice practices, dreaming about abolitionist futures, and supporting movement organizations through graphic recordings. To see a video of her making the artwork for the conference visit https://qgradconference.com

Meet QGrad featured artist, Laura Chow Reeve of Laura is a q***r mixed Chinese femme writing and drawing in Richmond, VA. She is currently writing a novel, studying Transformative Justice practices, dreaming about abolitionist futures, and supporting movement organizations through graphic recordings. To see a video of her making the artwork for the conference (and a larger image) visit https://qgradconference.com

Meet Dr. Jennifer Doyle, who will deliver the 2021 QGrad keynote address on Thursday, May 6 from 3:30-5pm PDT. 💻Registration link in bio. Doyle is author of Campus S*x, Campus Security, Hold it Against Me: Difficulty and Emotion in Contemporary Art, and S*x Objects: Art and the Dialectics of Desire. She is a writer, teacher and curator, and gets curated the performance series Tip of Her Tongue, for the Broad Museum (2015-2017) and Nao Bustamante: Soldadera for the Vincent Price Art Museum (3015). She is a part of the community that stewards Human Resources Los Angeles, a multi-disciplinary arts space in Chinatown, Los Angeles.

Meet featured QGrad performer who will perform songs from ARDOR and REACTOR, two albums they recorded and released in 2020 during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Performance: Friday, May 7 3-4pm PDT and Q&A with Dorian led by Jennifer Doyle to follow at 4:15pm PDT. Registration link in bio.

Join us May 6-7, 2021 for UCLA QGrad: Q***r Graduate Conference. This year’s theme is “Q***r Intimacy: Community, Control, Resistance.” Registration link in bio. Conference 🖼 based on panelist research by

Registration for QGrad 2021 is live! This year’s theme is “Q***r Intimacies: Community, Control, Resistance.” Link in bio.