Ask a QT

Ask a QT brings your questions to our LGBTQ Studies experts to answer in a short video. Got a question about queer, trans, and other issues that you’d like us to research? Send your query to lgbtq@austin.utexas.edu.

July 7, 2022, Filed Under: Ask a QT

What’s Going On With All the Anti-Trans Legislation and Policies in Texas?

Erika Slaymaker gives us an update on the fight against the anti-trans legislation in Texas.

February 13, 2022, Filed Under: Ask a QT

How do you read in Trans?

Brett Glasscock describes “the betweens and beyonds and aboves of transness” in anime.

November 18, 2021, Filed Under: Ask a QT

What is Cajun Death?

Riley Valentine reflects on the queer politics of the COVID-19 pandemic.

July 20, 2021, Filed Under: Ask a QT

What Does Queer and Trans Migration Mean to You?

UT Assistant Director of the Gender and Sexuality Center Quynh-Huong Nguyen gets candid about their family’s migration story, feeling migration dysphoria, and finding community amongst queer Asians in Austin.

March 1, 2021, Filed Under: Ask a QT

What is the Transgender Feminisms Reading Group?

Grayson Hunt invites you to this amazing trans feminist space.

October 13, 2020, Filed Under: Ask a QT

What Is a Freedom Community?

Funmi Ogunro is working on a film about Austin Black Freedom Communities. This clip explains what a freedom community is.

April 17, 2020, Filed Under: Ask a QT

“How many LGBTQ+ people are there at UT?”

In this short video, human ecologist Dr. Stephen Russell tackles the problems with counting queers.