Queer-Class Relations Conference

Prep for the Queer-Class Relations Conference by viewing 8 pre-recorded virtual panels! Link in bio @clagsny 1. Emergent Queer and Trans Class Formations 2. More Than the Book Can Hold? Queer-Class Labour, Creativity, and Collective Making 3. Queer and Trans Marxism and Internationalism 2 4. Queer-Class Aesthetic Circulations 5. Queer and Trans Art and Archives 2 6. Queer Representation under Neoliberalism 7. Queer Pedagogies at the Class Margins 8. New Queer and Trans Methods 2

Link in bio. Register for free LIVESTREAMED SESSIONS from the Queer-Class Relations Conference. Including... NYC Organizations Serving Queer-Class Communities Queer and Trans Print Culture Queer and Trans Marxism and Internationalism Lesbian and Queer Genres of Underclass Intimacy Queer and Trans Art and Archives All links are now working! Please support CLAGS by donating at clags.org CLAGS believes in free, accessible LGBTQ studies for everyone. Poster by @rnonymously

Link in bio. Register for free LIVESTREAMED SESSIONS from the Queer-Class Relations Conference. Including... Featured Panel: Queer Black Histories: Creating Archives for Ourselves --With Steven G. Fullwood, Miranda Mims, Christopher Stahling, Yanni Young Featured Roundtable: Amber Hollibaugh: Class, Queerness, and Desire --With Margot Weiss and Debanuj DasGupta, Lisa Duggan, Janet Jakobsen, Martin F. Manalansan IV, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Juana María Rodríguez, Rebecca Jordan Young All links are now working! Please support CLAGS by donating at clags.org CLAGS believes in free, accessible LGBTQ studies for everyone. Poster by @rnonymously

We are thrilled to be hosting a Grad Student Reception on Friday, April 17th from 7–9 PM in RM 5414 after the first day of the Queer Class Relations Conference! Open to all graduate students attending, this is a wonderful opportunity to meet new faces and build community among fellow queer scholars. And of course, free wine and cheese will be provided! Hosted by CLAGS and the Advanced Certificate in LGBTQ Studies Program, this event is made possible with the generous support of DGSC and QUNY. If you plan on attending, please RSVP via the QR code or through the link in our bio. Hope to see you there!

Join @bonhamcentre , the Mark S. Bonham Center for Sexual Diversity Studies, April 17th, 2026 in hosting storyteller, activist, and educator Eli Clare for his virtual keynote presentation for the Queer-Class Relations Conference. Clare’s work critically investigates disability and queer/transness through an exploration of the interweaving of race, class, gender, sexuality, disability, and environmental justice. This keynote is part of the Queer-Class Relations Conference hosted by @clagsny , CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies at the City University of New York, addressing the intersection of queer and trans experience and social class. SDS is honoured to be a co-host of this conference. Please join us for an in-person reception with refreshments followed by a viewing of Eli Clare’s virtual keynote presentation and a Q&A. If you are unable to attend the in-person event, you can register virtually. Register at link in bio @bonhamcentre If you have any accessibility needs or requested accommodations, please email [email protected]. This event will have live transcription available. Please find accessible entrances for the Paul Cadario Centre here. Program: 5-6pm: In-person reception with refreshments @ the Paul Cadario Conference Centre (15 King’s College Circle, Toronto) 6-7:15 pm: Hybrid Eli Clare presentation and Q&A Speaker Bio Eli Clare is a white, disabled, and genderqueer storyteller and educator. His books include the 2025 Unfurl: Survivals, Sorrows, and Dreaming; the award-winning Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure; The Marrow’s Telling; Words in Motion; and Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation. For his work on disability and queerness/transness, Clare received the 2025-26 Brudner Prize.

General Registration for the Queer-Class Relations Conference is now live! Link in bio @clagsny This will be the 43rd conference in the 40-year history of CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies! April 17-18, 2026, NYC. Register today at link in bio @clagsny With 60 panels, 175 presenters, and five all-conference sessions, the Queer-Class Relations Conference is designed to expand attendees’ individual interests and to promote a common, conference-wide experience. Keynote Speakers: Anjali Arondekar Anne Balay Eli Clare Thank you to our conference cohosts: —The Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies at the University of Toronto will host Eli Clare’s virtual keynote address. —A companion to the QCR conference, a Queer Class/Room Symposium will be sponsored on April 15-16 by the University of Pennsylvania: Department of English, The Program in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies, The Center for Research in Feminist, Queer, and Transgender Studies, and the Gender and Sexuality working group (Gen/Sex). Thank you to our conference cosponsors: @mables_smokehouse @cuny_lgbtqia_consortium @cunyslu @humanitiescuny @matthewsbrim @queerclassrelations

The Queer-Class Relations Conference SCHEDULE is now live! Link in bio @clagsny This will be the 43rd conference in the 40-year history of CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies! April 17-18, 2026, NYC. Register today at link in bio @clagsny With 60 panels, 175 presenters, and five all-conference sessions, the Queer-Class Relations Conference is designed to expand attendees’ individual interests and to promote a common, conference-wide experience. Keynote Speakers: Anjali Arondekar Anne Balay Eli Clare Thank you to our conference cohosts: --The Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies at the University of Toronto will host Eli Clare's virtual keynote address. --A companion to the QCR conference, a Queer Class/Room Symposium will be sponsored on April 15-16 by the University of Pennsylvania: Department of English, The Program in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies, The Center for Research in Feminist, Queer, and Transgender Studies, and the Gender and Sexuality working group (Gen/Sex).

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IMPORTANT UPDATES TO THE QUEER-CLASS RELATIONS CONFERENCE AT CLAGS, APRIL 17-18, 2026!! -->Conference link in bio UPDATE 1: Graduate Student Pre-Conference in Philadelphia We have added a GRADUATE STUDENT PRE-CONFERENCE, April 15-16, 2026, in Philadelphia. Sponsored by The University of Pennsylvania, the Department of English, and The Center for Research in Feminist, Queer, and Transgender Studies. About the pre-conference: --For Graduate Students interested in queer-class relations --Featuring PhD-faculty interactive reading groups and workshops --A limited number of travel grants are available ($750) --Lodging available and meals provided during the pre-conference in Philly --Contact [email protected] for information UPDATE 2: Virtual Participation Thank you for your inquiries about virtual and remote participation for the conference. We think we’ve found solutions that match our capacity and that allow for much broader engagement. --Queer-Class Relations will offer both 100% in-person panels and 100% virtual panels (hybrid panels are difficult for us to manage). Virtual panels are for panelists who cannot attend in person. If it is at all possible to attend in person, CLAGS would love to have you join us in New York! We want the in-person experience to be dynamic and energizing, while building queer-class relations across all modalities. --All Keynote addresses will be both in-person and livestreamed via webinar. --Two in-person panel rooms will have a permanent livestream camera set up, allowing virtual attendance throughout the two days of panels in those two rooms. We hope this will make those who can’t travel to New York feel more a part of the conference. --Abstracts of accepted papers will be posted on the conference website, and it will be possible for readers to post questions or comments for the presenters in advance of the conference (asynchronous participation) --In-person panel sessions will be video recorded to the greatest extent possible and uploaded to CLAGS’ YouTube page. In-person panel sessions will also be audio recorded to the greatest extent possible. UPDATE 3: Deadline for Proposals extended to September 15, 2025

@clagsny @queerclassrelations CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center will host a Queer-Class Relations conference April 17-18, 2026. Proposals are by September 1, 2025. Conference link in bio @queerclassrelations Commemorating the 40th anniversary of CLAGS’ founding in 1986 and its groundbreaking Homo/Economics conference in 1994, this conference marks a pivotal moment for thinking about queer-class relations. Working in the tradition of thinkers such as Cathy Cohen, Lee Badgett, and Eli Clare–and in memory of our dear friends Urvashi Vaid, Jeffrey Escoffier, and Amber Hollibaugh–the conference invites participants to explore the connections between queer lives and the class experiences that are also shaped by race, caste, disability, and gender. Premised on the idea that queer and class are inevitably intertwined, the conference asks what the construction “queer-class” illuminates, obfuscates, disrupts, and structures. How can we understand erotic, economic, personal, and social relations in ways that help us build queer-class solidarities, for example within university-based queer and trans studies, across activist sites in the Global South, or amidst the wreckage of the current U.S. political landscape? Keynote speakers: Anne Balay and Anjali Arondekar

@clagsny CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center will host a Queer-Class Relations conference April 17-18, 2026. Proposals are by September 1, 2025. Commemorating the 40th anniversary of CLAGS’ founding in 1986 and its groundbreaking Homo/Economics conference in 1994, this conference marks a pivotal moment for thinking about queer-class relations. Working in the tradition of thinkers such as Cathy Cohen, Lee Badgett, and Eli Clare–and in memory of our dear friends Urvashi Vaid, Jeffrey Escoffier, and Amber Hollibaugh–the conference invites participants to explore the connections between queer lives and the class experiences that are also shaped by race, caste, disability, and gender. Premised on the idea that queer and class are inevitably intertwined, the conference asks what the construction “queer-class” illuminates, obfuscates, disrupts, and structures. How can we understand erotic, economic, personal, and social relations in ways that help us build queer-class solidarities, for example within university-based queer and trans studies, across activist sites in the Global South, or amidst the wreckage of the current U.S. political landscape? Keynote speakers: Anne Balay and Anjali Arondekar Conference link in bio.