Online Research Seminar Series - September

Join us for our September research seminar

At this online research seminar we will hear from Professor Sandy O'Sullivan and Dr Han Reardon-Smith.

Friday 26 September

12:00pm AEST

Saving Lives, Mapping Anti-Colonial Queer Arts.

Saving Lives, Mapping Anti-Colonial Queer Arts

Queer as… is an anticolonial queer project forming a part of the ARC Future Fellowship, Saving Lives: mapping the influence of LGBTIQA+ Indigenous creative artists. Through this seminar we are excited to launch the Queer as… website that houses the work from this program, including podcasts with Indigenous queer creativities, and more.   We’re planning to talk about this as well as the work still to be done.

Professor Sandy O’Sullivan is a Wiradjuri transgender/non-binary person and prof in the Centre of Critical Indigenous Studies at Macquarie University, where they’re a 2020-2024 ARC Future Fellow with the project, Saving Lives: Mapping the influence of Indigenous LGBTIQ+ creative artists.  They work across museums, cultural studies, gender and queer studies, Indigenous studies, and access studies.  Since 1991 they’ve run multiple national research centres and taught and published across gender, museums, performance, the body, and First Nations’ identity.  They work and write with Dr Han Reardon-Smith on the Saving Lives project and beyond.

Dr Han Reardon-Smith is a queer-trans settler flutist, electronic musician, improviser, radio producer, community organiser, writer, researcher, and thinker living on the unceded land of the Jagera, Yuggera Ugarapul, and Turrbal Peoples. As a flutist and electronic musician, Han plays solo under the moniker cyberBanshee, and with Magan-djin's radically inclusive symphonic pop collective Matt Hsu's Obscure Orchestra, as well as improv and experimentation trios Rogue Three and It’s Science And Feelings. Their work and thinking are rooted in queer/trans and disabled collaborative and contaminative co-creation, exploring the emergent possibilities of making-kin and finding agency within community (soundmaking as kinmaking: musickin). They are one of the community organising thinker-troublemakers behind the Brisbane Free University, its Radical Reading Group, and its 4ZZZ community radio and podcast offshoot, the Radio Reversal Collective. They are a postdoctoral research associate at Macquarie, on the Saving Lives program with Prof O’Sullivan.