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Graduate Seminar with Cait McKinney
September 26 | 10:00 - 12:00
Clusters: Media and Materiality
Join the DIGS Lab for a graduate seminar with Cait McKinney. This conversation-based session will be a great opportunity to engage directly with the author while discussing the chapter “Calling to Talk and Listening Well: Information as Care at Telephone Hotlines” from their book Information Activism: A Queer History of Lesbian Media Technologies. The chapter will be shared with participants in advance.
Participation is limited to 20 people. If the seminar reaches capacity, you will receive an email confirming your spot on the waitlist, and another message if a space becomes available.
📩 Please contact hannah.schallert@gmail.com for any questions and additional information.
ABOUT CAIT MCKINNEY:
Cait McKinney is an associate professor in the School Communication at Simon Fraser Universityspecializing in sexuality studies, media history, and activist media. Their research focuses on the mediated conditions in which queer people, especially activists, have taken up new computing and information technologies to serve their communities and movements. This work surfaces queer modes of technological use that show us alternative ways of understanding technologies and their politics, and offers new media theories and methodologies that emerge from and can account for the knowledges of queer people. Cait McKinney is the author of I Know You Are, but What Am I? On Pee-wee Herman (Minnesota 2024) and Information Activism: A Queer History of Lesbian Media Technologies (Duke 2020).
📅 September 26, 2025
⏱️ 10 AM-12 PM
📍Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
🎟️ Please register your attendance here.