QT-Con: Creativity, Education, Theory
Relevant Conference Sessions
- Act-up, art making, and methodologies of resistance (Sophia Balsamo)
- The Application of Freirean Critical Pedagogy Methods to HIV/AIDS Education (Zachary Marsh)
- Bisexual Ghost: a reading (Maddie Portune)
- Educate and Celebrate: Advocating for inclusive education (Elia Morse)
- Exploring Empowerment amongst Athletes (Amanda Kaufman)
- Fandom Culture as a Source of Community & Resistance (Mandy Olejnik)
- History of Rock & Roll: Queer Hidden Icons of the 70's and 80's (Anna Cales)
- How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time (Tina Riedy)
- "I am what I am": The Advancement of Queer Rights Through Musical Theater (Ilana Miller)
- I wanna Know What Love Is (Kennedy Hughes)
- LGBTQ+ Musicians and their representation of queer experiences (Mary Hines)
- LGBTQIA+ Allyship in Academia & Beyond (Salem Holden)
- Making the Classroom a Safe Space (Ellie Brennan)
- Physical Space and interactions on LGBTQ+ Sense of Belonging (Benjamin Williams)
- Queer Fiction: A Beginner's Guide to Diversifying Your Reading (Sydney Bell)
- Queer Fanfiction: Escapism or Activism? (Megan Kellerman)
- Queering Arts Management Scholarship (Erin Hoppe)
- Queering Urban Appalachia: Poetry Reading (Matt Farley)
- Reading: "The Language of Love and Lesbianism" (Samantha Stahlhut)
- Rest, really (Megan Kuykendoll)
- Spicy Bi and Transgenders (Lucia Morello)
- Stress in Queer Students (James Renton)
- Unity in Diversity: Embracing Intersectional Struggles (Amelia Whitney)
- Unveiling Frida Kahlo (Molly O'Keefe)
- Work Song Dance (Morgan Eisenbraun)
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Circuits of the sacred : a faggotology in the Black Latinx Caribbean by ISBN: 9781478024071Publication Date: 2023
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A deafblind writer and professor explores how the misrepresentation of disability in books, movies, and TV harms both the disabled community and everyone else.
As a deafblind woman with partial vision in one eye and bilateral hearing aids, Elsa Sjunneson lives at the crossroads of blindness and sight, hearing and deafness—much to the confusion of the world around her. While she cannot see well enough to operate without a guide dog or cane, she can see enough to know when someone is reacting to the visible signs of her blindness and can hear when they’re whispering behind her back. And she certainly knows how wrong our one-size-fits-all definitions of disability can be.
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The Creative Act is a beautiful and generous course of study that illuminates the path of the artist as a road we all can follow. It distills the wisdom gleaned from a lifetime's work into a luminous reading experience that puts the power to create moments--and lifetimes--of exhilaration and transcendence within closer reach for all of us.
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This Is What It Sounds Like is a journey into the science and soul of music that reveals the secrets of why your favorite songs move you. But it’s also a story of a musical trailblazer who began as a humble audio tech in Los Angeles to became Prince’s chief engineer for Purple Rain, and then create other No. 1 hits (including Barenaked Ladies' "One Week") as one of the most successful female record producers of all time.
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