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RECENT events
August 2025 — Clarke, Mikaela. 2025. "Virtual Speed Dating: Stratification and Harm Reduction in a 2SLGBTQ+ Sexual Field." Paper presented at the American Sociological Association (ASA) Annual Meeting, Sociology of Sexualities Roundtables. Chicago, IL.
June 2025 — Clarke, Mikaela. 2025. "LGBTQ Speed-Dating as a Virtual Sexual Field." Paper presented at the Annual Canadian Sociological Association (CSA) Conference, Sexual Cultures: Old, New, and Contested. Toronto, ON.
June 2025 — Lo, Nakharathep. 2025. "Developing Insurgent Safety: Pacification, Police Abolition, and Non-Reformist Resistance." Paper presented at the Annual Canadian Sociological Association (CSA) Conference, Policing, Labour and Pacification. Toronto, ON.
June 2025 — Tanaka, Momo. 2025. "The Role of SSHRC in LGBTQ+ Knowledge Production in Canada." Paper presented at the Annual Canadian Sociological Association (CSA) Conference, Sociology, Sociologically: Sociologists Shaping Knowledge. Toronto, ON.
May 2025 — Fields, Jessica, and Jen Gilbert. 2025. “Beyond Schooling: Intimate Possibilities and the Limits of Bullying.” Presented at the Gender and Education Conference. Manchester, England.
May 2025 — Launched TRACES: Queer Toronto During the Pandemic: an interactive audio-visual map featuring stories of the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdowns drawn from Queer COVID Toronto. Conducted in 2021-23 with support from the UTSC COVID Action Initiative, Queer COVID Toronto explored the mental health and experiences of sexual and gender minority people living in Toronto during the COVID-19 global pandemic as we faced rising and plateauing case numbers, social isolation, social distancing, and uncertainties.
August 2024 — Catonio, Ash, and Jessica Fields. 2024. “Strategic Liminality: Young People Navigating LGBTQ+ Identity.” Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, Sociology of Sexualities Roundtables. Montreal, QC.
August 2024 — Fields, Jessica. 2024. “From the Gut: Feeling Differently About Qualitative Research.” Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, Joint Session: Social Psychology and Sociology of Emotion Roundtables. Montreal, QC.
June 2024 — 4theRecord: Youth, Risk and COVID-19. 2024. Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. Toronto, ON.
April 2024 — Gilbert, Jen, and Jessica Fields. 2024. Contributors to Symposium on “Engaging Education Work in and with LGBTQ+ People and Communities.” Annual Meetings of the American Educational Research Association Queer Special Interest Group (SIG). Philadelphia.
November 2023 — Fields, Jessica, and Jen Gilbert. 2023. “Coming Out in a Pandemic: Reimagining Risk in the Lives of Queer Young Women and Non-Binary Youth during COVID.” Annual Meetings of the Australian Association for Research in Education. Melbourne, Australia.
November 2023 — Gilbert, Jen, and Jessica Fields. 2023. “Adventures in Sex Education.” Annual Meetings of the Australian Association for Research in Education. Melbourne, Australia.
May 2023 — Attia, Cheery-Maria, and Jessica Fields. 2023. “Fatigue, Sorrow, and Curiosity in a Study of Sexual Risk.” Annual Meetings of the Canadian Sociological Association. Toronto, ON.
May 2023 — Pereira, David, Jen Gilbert, Kethmi Egodage, Neel Desai, Vaishnavy Puvipalan, Vijay Saravanamuthu, Pearl Finkelzon, and Jessica Fields. 2023. “Collective Autoethnography and a Queer Research Project’s Racial Reckoning: Making Space for BIPOC Researchers.” Annual Meetings of the Canadian Society for the Study of Education. Toronto, ON.
April 2023 — Williams, Sarah A., Laura Beach, and Jessica Fields. 2023. “Needs, Access, & Obstacles: Mental Health Care for 2SLGBTQIA+ during COVID.” Findings presented at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health RBC Patient and Family Learning Space.