I chair panel discussions, selecting and briefing speakers and choosing the theme. I give presentations on Internet technology for artists and arts based projects. I am also invited to speak about queer identities as they intersect culture, gender and history.
Some of these include:
National Portrait Gallery – Gay Icons – Stealing Beauty – Panel Discussion 2009
With artist, DJ and performer Sadie Lee; Diva magazine Editor Jane Czyzselska; filmmaker and curator filmmaker Campbell and fashion historian and cultural critic Elizabeth Wilson discuss how LGBT people steal mainstream culture and transform it.
National Portrait Gallery – Gay Icons – Fade to Black – Panel Chair 2009
How does the term gay icone relate to people of color who only have access to icons selected by mainstream Eurocentric culture with biographer Andrea Stuart, filmmaker Pratibha Parmar and singer Maria Rosa Young.
Butch Voices – Is that me on the TV? – Panel Discussion 2009
Butch representation and appropriation in mainstream film and TV.
With Cheryl Dunye (Stranger Inside, Watermelon Woman), Campbell (Fem, BD Women), Kortney Ryan Ziegler (Still Black), Kimberly Peirce (Boys Don’t Cry) & Jack Halberstam (Female Masculinity)
In This Our Lives: The Reunion + Panel Discussion 2009
Chaired a panel discussing the issues raised by the film and the future of black gay activism in the UK. Panelists included film interviewees Martin Patrick and Alex Olowade, rukus! founders Topher Campbell and Ajamu X, Jay Bernard, and Oh Wow Boyz, Dejay Scott and Christian Neckles.
Follow the Yellow Brick Road – FACT Liverpool 2008
Guiding web masters/producers from creative companies on how to conduct an audit of their sites looking at SEO, Analytics, Audience and User experience, Business models and Digital Asset Management
Future Histories of the Moving Image – Sunderland University 2007
It’s all out there, so why aren’t you using it?
A presentation to the Future Histories conference on the use of Open Source solutions and Web 2.0 applications to ensure web projects are sustainable.
Re-Presenting Diasporas in Cinema and New (Digital) Media 2007
Legacy: Memory, Diaspora and Shame
A presentation to the conference using the films Legacy, BD Women as illustrations on how people of African descent in the America’s ‘forget’ their history due to issues of shame.
Fire This Time! – Queering Black History Month 2006
By Any Means Necessary
The Challenges and Delights of Being an LGBT Artist
Chaired and organised a panel discussion with artists including Topher Campbell (filmmaker, director), Ash Kotak (playwright), Pratibha Parmar (filmmaker), Robert Taylor (photographer), Ali Zaidi (artistic director)
Booyaka! Ragga and Homophobia
London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival 2005
Organised and selected panellists and curated the discussion. This was chaired by Topher Campbell (filmmaker, director) and panellists included Peter Tatchell (human rights activist)
Dennis L Carney (Chair Black Gay Men’s Advisory Group), DJ Mr T (Bootylicious), Biggy C (Bootylicious)
Sanctified – Religion and Homosexuality
London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival 2004
Organised and selected panellists and curated the discussion. This discussion was chaired by Jenny Gaffin, Chair of Religion Affirming Gender and Sexuality (RAGS) and panellists included, Anshul Raja (practising Hindu), Jasvir Degun (practising Sikh), Nathan Kingsley (practising Buddhist and meditation teacher),
Rabbi Roderick Young, Richard Kirker (General Secretary of the Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement)
Black British Style
In the Life – Black Lesbian and Gay Style
Victoria and Albert Museum 2004
Photographic presentation about the diversity of Black queer style including gender queer, nationalistic and body modification styles.
