Upcoming Events
From our network and community
Our upcoming event listings include Health Hub events, and those put on by our network and broader community. Check out all our events below.
Have something coming up that you want amplified?
Upcoming Events
It Is Our Promiscuity That Will Save Us: Queer Care, Community-Building, and the Messiness of Interdependence
Zena Sharman, 2S/LGBTQ+ Health Hub Lecture Series, hello.bonjour@2slgbtqhealthhub.ca
In 1987, the art historian, critic, and curator Douglas Crimp wrote, “It is our promiscuity that will save us.” Crimp’s challenge to the notion of promiscuity as a destructive force offers us a portal into thinking about technologies and practices of queer care and community-building that can help see us through the present moment of polycrisis, and the next.
Rather than shying away from the messiness of our entanglements with each other, or the affective muck that accumulates over time in queer communities, let’s get into the mess together. It is here where we might find the solidarities, relational skills, capacity for risk-taking, and even the possibility of pleasure as we build more durable bonds, grounded in learnings from our own lives, those of our queer elders and ancestors, and the futures we are striving to create."
About the Speaker
Zena Sharman, PhD is a writer and LGBTQ+ health advocate whose work explores themes of community, identity and care. She is the editor of several anthologies, including The Care We Dream Of and the Lambda Literary award-winning The Remedy. Her debut memoir, Staying Power, was published in 2026. Zena has fifteen years’ experience in leadership roles at provincial and national health research organizations and has been a featured speaker at events, conferences, and universities across North America. You can learn more about Zena and her work at <https://www.zenasharman.com/>
Register for this Hybrid event here. Online and In-Person (DLSPH Room 574).
Link:
eventbrite.ca