Date & time
Friday, November 28, 2025
3 p.m. – 5 p.m.
3 p.m. – 5 p.m.
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Shame Sex Attraction
A Conversation with Dr. Lucas F.W. Wilson
Cost
This event is free.
Website
Where
J.W. McConnell Building
1400 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W.
4TH SPACE
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Dr. Lucas F.W. Wilson's new short-story anthology, Shame-Sex Attraction: Survivors' Stories of Conversion Therapy, brings together 17 stories about conversion therapy, written by survivors themselves (including Wilson).
At this event, Wilson will be in conversation with Dr. Casey Burkholder and Dr. Celeste E. Orr to discuss Shame-Sex Attraction and it's effort, through survivors' testimonies, to expose conversion therapy practices as pseudoscientific, ineffective, and traumatic.
How can you participate? Join us in person or online by registering for the Zoom Meeting or watching live on YouTube.
Have questions? Send them to info.4@concordia.ca
Speakers
Dr. Lucas F.W. Wilson
Wilson is a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Toronto Mississauga and was formerly the Justice, Equity, and Transformation Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Calgary.
Dr. Casey Burkholder
Burkholder is a Tier II Canada Research Chair in Social Justice in Youth and Child Studies at Concordia University whose research agenda intersects resistance&activism, gender, sexuality, DIY media-making, art production, queer joy, and participatory archiving.
Dr. Celeste E. Orr
Orr is an Associate Professor of Sociology, the Wendy J. Robbins Professor in Gender & Women Studies, and the Director of the Gender & Women's Studies Program at the University of New Brunswick.