LGBT History Month is here! Join Queer@King’s and ParaPride for a ‘digital fireside chat’ on history, queerness, and disability studies!

Daniele Lul (Community Engagement Director, ParaPride) and Sebastian Matzner (Director, Queer@King’s) welcome three panellists for an informal conversation on figures and topics, from past and present, around which questions of sexuality, gender, and bodily difference converge.

Speakers

Amy Jefford Franks is currently an independent scholar, and holds an MA in Viking and Medieval Norse Studies from the University of Iceland. Their work focuses on pre-Christian Scandinavian, aka ‘Viking’, religion from a perspective of gender and queerness. They also work on Medievalism and the use of ‘Vikings’ in white supremacy in the last two centuries. Amy also hosts the podcast ‘Vikings Are Gay’ and has appeared on a number of podcasts, radio shows, and been interviewed for The Sunday Times.

Jen Slater is a Reader in Queer Disability Studies in Sheffield Institute of Education, Sheffield Hallam University. Their research sits somewhere between queer, trans and disability studies, and has most recently explored what makes a safe and accessible toilet space, centring the experiences of queer, trans and disabled people (see http://aroundthetoilet.com). They are a non-binary parent to a two-year old, so currently negotiating the gendered worlds that parenting entails! Follow Jen on Twitter @jenslater_

Lee Hansen is a third-year PhD student at Lancaster University and is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. He is researching the ways that disability and queerness are in dialogue with each other in sixteenth and seventeenth century English translations of Ovid’s epic shape-shifting poem, the Metamorphoses. Follow Lee on Twitter @Lee1980

Event information

This event is open to all and free to attend, with live captioning and live British Sign Language interpretation provided.

Booking is now open via Eventbrite; please join Queer@King’s for updates on news and events.

Please note due to a high number of ticket cancellations with past online events, we will overbook this event. Tickets are on a first come, first serve basis.

The event will be hosted online using Zoom. The event link will be emailed to audience members ca. 30 minutes before the start of the event. We kindly ask that you mute yourselves during the event.