Q***rPop
LGBTQ2IA+ Folks in Pop Culture
Q***rPop is a site for conversations about LGBTQ2IA+ identities, particularly as they appear in our popular culture and popular media. We hope to open dialogue about Q***r experiences and portrayals of us as Q***r people. We plan to use this digital space to bring to light some of the positive representations of LGBTQ2IA+ people and culture. We hope to cap
ture the idea of q***rness as a CULTURE, as a group identity, and to look at aspects of our cultural identity. As a group, we are frequently erased or ignored, so we hope to bring attention to and talk about the things that people outside our culture don’t hear, see, or experience. We want to promote own voices materials and let our voices percolate in a space of conversation. We also hope to explore the way that we are described and articulated by people outside our community and the problems that often arise from our portrayal by straight, cisgender folks. We plan to use a variety of methods for engaging in the discussion of Q***r Pop including video, audio recordings, artwork, photos, creative writing, poetry, storytelling, performance, and written materials. We plan to engage with these materials through discussions with specialists in the area (authors, activists, academics, artists, and others with narratives to share), through sharing panel discussions, and by sharing reviews. Our Editors
Caro Frechette is a disabled, transgender q***r man, a sequential artist, publisher, and author. He has published over a dozen short stories, both graphic and prose, as well as five novels, three graphic novels, and two works of nonfiction. He is the author of the online comic Some Assembly Required on Tapas: https://tapas.io/series/Some-Assembly-Required1. He has taught creative writing over a decade, and has a degree in Film Studies and another in Sequential Art. He was the founder and director of the French Canadian literary magazine Histoires à Boire Debout, was an editor for the French Canadian graphic novel publisher Premières Lignes, and is a co-founder of the Ottawa-based publisher Renaissance: https://renaissancebookpress.com/ . You can read more about his work here: https://carolinefrechette.com/
Derek Newman-Stille is a disabled, Q***r (Q***r-Crip) academic, activist, author, and artist. He is a 7 time Prix Aurora Award winning critic and interviewer. He created the Speculating Canada https://speculatingcanada.ca digital humanities (DH) project and the Dis(Abled) Embodiment https://disabledembodiment.wordpress.com DH site, as well as co-creating the Through The Twisted Woods https://throughthetwistedwoods.wordpress.com digital folklore hub (with Sara Cleto and Brittany Warman). Derek has co-edited works of fiction like Over the Rainbow: Folk and Fairy Tales from the Margins forthcoming from Exile and co-edited with Kelsi Morris. Derek has written introductions and afterwards to works like The Playground of Lost Toys and Accessing the Future. Derek also teaches at Trent University and is a PhD ABD in Canadian Studies at the Frost Centre for Canadian Studies (Trent University), where he researches representations of disability in Canadian Spec Fic. He has been published in fora such as Mosaic, Quill & Quire, The Canadian Fantastic in Focus, and Misfit Children: An Inquiry into Childhood Belongings.
