Malcolm John Rio 10/8/21 Malcolm John Rio 10/8/21

Black in Design 2021: “Designing for Black Queer Pleasure, Joy, and Intimacy”

Watch the panel I moderated at Harvard GSD’s Black in Design 2021 Conference, featuring Ashon Crawley, Leslie Wilson, Aneesah Ettress, and founder of Papi Juice Adam R.

Malcolm John Rio 2/27/21 Malcolm John Rio 2/27/21

“Anti-Racism in Thesis Workshop” at The Cooper Union

I will be a panelist on Cooper Union’s “Anti-racism in Thesis Workshop,” being held virtually Saturday, February 27, 2021, 10AM - 4PM.

Malcolm John Rio 2/17/21 Malcolm John Rio 2/17/21

“Mellon Forum: Urban Speculation // Queer Resistance,” at Princeton University

I will be a panelist at this year’s Princeton-Mellon Forum, speaking about ballroom culture and queer urban resistance.

Malcolm John Rio 1/18/21 Malcolm John Rio 1/18/21

The Anti-Racist School of Architecture Symposium 2021

The Architectural Initiative for Diversity (AID) will be kicking off The Anti-Racist School of Architecture Virtual Symposium 2021 with a discussion on "Justice & the Creator God" on Saturday the 16th while the main day will be the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday, Monday, January 18.

Malcolm John Rio 12/9/20 Malcolm John Rio 12/9/20

“House & Home: A Conversation,” Columbia University

I will be in conversation with the architecturally trained visual artist Amanda Williams, architect, educator, and author, Professor Hansy Better Barraza, and fellow BSA+GSAPP members Skylar Royal and Ife Salema Vanable where we will explore forms of cultural production in which “house” and “home,” mobilized as architectural allegory and material object (“thing,” with its attendant systems of construction, finance, land, and labor), advance and/or refute claims on agency, authorship, and normativity.