New Blueprint for Government

Kevin Lynch, who hails from Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, started his career at the Bank of Canada. This led to a 33-year career in government that included leadership roles as Clerk of the Privy Council, Deputy Minister of Finance, and Deputy Minister of Industry. Post government, Dr. Lynch served as Vice Chair of BMO, was active on numerous corporate and not-for-profit boards, and still writes and speaks frequently on public policy issues.  Jim Mitchell, who was raised in Regina, Saskatchewan, has worked as an academic, a senior public servant, and a consultant. He served 17 years in government, first as a diplomat and then as a senior official in the Privy Council Office and the Treasury Board Secretariat. Over the years he has published articles on public policy and public management and has given numerous lectures and speeches to Public Service and university audiences.

• Acknowledgments  Foreword: The Contagion of Sex – Damon Ross Young  Introduction: None of Us – Ricky Varghese  RECEPTIVE BODIES  1. How to Have COVID in a Pandemic, One Approach – Marty Fink  2. Imagining Freedom: Black Gay Liberation and Aesthetic Experimentation in the Works of Marlon Riggs – Darius Bost  3. #NoGoingBack: Queering Racial Capitalism on the Conjuncture of Pandemic and Protest – Jin Haritaworn  INTIMACIES  4. Pandemic Asexuality, or Compulsory Sexuality in Risky Times – Theresa Kenney  5. Viral Intimacies: Sex or the Creative Replication of Undoing – João Florêncio  6. Querelle’s R Naught – Nicholas Hauck  THOUGHTS AND THINGS  7. Thinking Distance – Austin Svedjan  8. Sex and Exclusion – John Paul Ricco  9. Variants: On Melancholia and Moralism – Christien Garcia  Afterword: Explicit Content – Jean-Thomas Tremblay  About the ContributorsIndex

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