Each semester, Carleton University Art Gallery (CUAG) showcases a Carleton academic whose research interests complements one of our current exhibitions, and invite them to give a talk on their research. Bring your lunch, the gallery will provide coffee and tea, and we’ll all learn something new!

The artists in TRANSACTIONS work together within the creative fields of poetry, performance, and visual art, as well as teach and lead workshops. As Dan Irving (Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies) will explore in this Lunchtime Lecture, however, transgendered populations are overrepresented among those underemployed and unemployed within Canada. Drawing from his qualitative study of un(der)employment among trans* identified people, Irving will identify major issues that trans* job seekers and employees face, offer trans narratives detailing the gender-based violence that occurs within the workplace and raise issues regarding the often unspoken demands for particular gendered and racial embodiment to perform affective labour that cannot be addressed adequately through advancing employment rights and non-discriminatory policies.

Dan Irving is an Associate Professor teaching in the Human Rights and Sexuality Studies programs in IIS. Irving is the co-editor of Trans Activism in Canada: A Reader (with Rupert Raj) published by Canadian Scholar’s Press. His work has been published in Transgender Studies Reader 2, Sexuality Studies and Australian Feminist Studies. Irving serves on the Board of Egale Canada (secretary).

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