By Ashli Bravo, Daniel Rios, Julian Peralta, and Shahrayar Rafiqui
The topic for our presentation focused on the Queer community and the issues currently affecting them. We define the queer community inclusively as those who do not fit neatly within the realm of cisgender identity and heterosexual attraction. This includes, but is not limited to the LGBT identities, asexuals and aromantic people, non-binary people who may or may not have gender dysphoria or identify as transgender, non-monogamous people, intersex people, those questioning their identity and anyone else who feels comfortable identifying as queer. We strove to get different perspectives from an international standpoint from different community members, interviewing them, listening to their personal experiences and asked them their perspectives on what issues were most relevant to them and the broader community.
For inquiries regarding this initiative, please contact:
Mark-David Hosale, Ph.D. – mdhosale@yorku.ca
Associate Professor and Chair, Computational Arts
Digital Media Program
School of Art, Media, Performance and Design
York University, Toronto
4700 Keele Street .:. 228 Goldfarb Centre for Fine Arts .:. Toronto ON, M3J 1P3 Canada
http://computationalarts.ampd.yorku.ca/