Zachary Blair

NOV 2018

“Sires, Spires, and the State: Neoliberal Multiculturalism, Racial Violence, and Shifting Gay Public Space in Chicago.” American Anthropological Association (AAA) Annual Meeting. Session: “Queer/ed Spaces, Anthropological Openings.” San Jose, California. ​

APR 2018

"Racial Violence in Chicago's Boystown: Discourse, Power, and Gay Neighborhood (Re)Production." Central States Anthropological Society (CSAS) Annual Meeting and Conference. Session: Intersections of Power: Race, Gender, and Sexuality. Indiana University at Bloomington. 

APR 2018

"Boystown: Formation Narratives and Racial Violence in Chicago’s Gay Neighborhood," Queer Studies Conference: Prisons, Borders, and Pipelines: Toward a Queer Abolitionist Movement, Session: Queer Inside and Outside. University of North Carolina at Asheville. 

NOV 2016

"Pulse: The Neoliberal Trap of Gay Space," Spaces and Flows Conference: Planetary Urbanization in the Modern World, University of Pennsylvania

NOV 2012

"Boystown: Intersections of Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality in Chicago's Gay Neighborhood," American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco

MAR 2011

"Bodies in Built Queer Space: The History, Politics, and Economy of Chicago's Northalsted Street," Gender, Sexuality and Urban Space Conference, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

MAY 2010 

"The Queer Politics of Cyber-Sociality: The Political Possibilities and Limitation of Queer(ing) Social Networking Sites," Queertopia: The Radical Potential of Queer(ing) Politics, Northwestern University

APR 2010

"Junk in the Trunk: A Queer Exploration of Truck Nutz as Contemporary Material Culture," Gender, Bodies, and Technology Conference, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

FEB 2010 

"Junk in the Trunk: Gender, Race, and the Political Economy of Truck Nutz," Thinking Gender Conference, University of California at Los Angeles

DEC 2009  

"Junk in the Trunk: A Queer Exploration of Truck Nutz as Contemporary Material Culture," GWS Brown Bag Speaker Series, University of Illinois at Chicago

MAY 2009

"Junk in the Trunk: A Queer Perspective of the Testicle Trend in the Southern United States," Queertopia: (Re)Imagining Communities, Northwestern University