CDHI Visiting Speaker Series: Avery Dame-Griff
February 6 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm EST
CDHI is pleased to welcome our annual Visiting Speaker: Dr. Avery Dame-Griff. This will be an in person event at the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto (room TBA).
Dr. Dame-Griff’s talk is titled “Tracing the Two Revolutions: A History of the Transgender Internet”
In this talk, Dame-Griff explores how the internet shaped transgender identity and activism from the 1980s to the present. As he argues, the ways trans people used digital infrastructure in the early days of the internet to build community offers key lessons in a moment of moral panic.
Dr. Dame-Griff is a Lecturer in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Gonzaga University. He founded and serves as primary curator of the Queer Digital History Project, an independent community history project cataloging and archiving pre-2010 LGBTQ spaces online. In 2022, he served as a Public Humanities Fellow for Humanities Washington and is currently part of Humanities Washington’s Speakers’ Bureau.
Dr. Dame-Griff will also be facilitating a graduate workshop on working with born-digital materials on Thursday, February 6 at 10:00 am. Workshop information and registration is available.
This event is generously co-sponsored by the Faculty of Information.