This is a public symposium of the Cuir Américas Working Group | Grupo de Trabajo Feminista/Queer/Cuir to be held in Ann Arbor on September 20, 2019, to advance the publication of two scholarly journal special issues that will appear in the United States (in English) and in Brazil (in Spanish and Portuguese). We aspire to … Read more
In the twenty-first century, the Japanese manga and anime industry has opened markets around the world. As manga and anime have spread, so too has the fan practice of cosplay, dressing up as animated characters. The vast majority of cosplayers around the world are women. In this paper, I examine the practice of cosplay in … Read more
As a deconstructive tool, does the decolonial necessarily expose colonial powers, structures, laws, and institutions? What are the flaws of a decolonial theory that regards a materialist perspective while occluding the spirit of the mind and body? It is as if the method and the theory exist in parallel universes, never to touch or entice … Read more
Please join us as we welcome River Coello to campus as our keynote speaker for National Coming Out Week 2019 and LGBTQ History Month 2019. About River: River Coello is a queer and trans multidisciplinary artist from Guayaquil, Ecuador living in Chicago, Illinois. As an actor, River has appeared on various stage productions, having trained … Read more
From Negritude, to the Anti-Apartheid movement, to Mizrahi Jewish claims to being Black Panthers, to Asian/African/Caribbean coalitions in the United Kingdom, to articulations by German and French youth today, this symposium will address the ways in which “Blackness” has been mobilized to make claims on state and other resources. It will engage the anti-normative forms … Read more
Kavi Ade, activist, arts educator, and poet Please join this year’s Transgender Awareness Week Keynote speaker, Kavi Ade, on Monday, November 18th, 6:30-7:30 pm at the School of Social Work, Room ECC (located on the first floor). To learn more about the event details, including directions to the event, please visit http://bit.ly/TAWkeynote19. Kavi Ade is a … Read more
This talk will examine the politics of fantasy in relation to representations of Latino male sexuality in contemporary independent and queer cinema. Primarily focusing on Miguel Arteta’s 1997 film Star Maps, the talk reads the film as a critique of Hollywood’s racially exclusive practices while illustrating how fantasy helps make sense of protagonist Carlos’s American … Read more
Dr. González-Rivera’s research on western Nicaragua’s pre-1979 LGBTQ histories reveals a complex story. She documents a long-standing Indigenous “transgender” tradition in open-air markets, which rests on pre-colonial economic opportunities for women in tiangues and Nicaragua’s unique association between commerce and femininity. Dr. González-Rivera further contends that contemporary Nicaraguan negative attitudes towards trans women, while less … Read more
RSVP: Please RSVP to reserve your place for this free event. Join us for the official kick-off party for the Feminist Futures: Art, Design & Activism Event Series. The afternoon will include participatory readings of texts and poetry on feminism, queerness and gender written by Gloria Anzaldúa, Zach Blas, Lucy Lippard, Audre Lorde, Fred Moten, and Wu … Read more
Courtney Thorsson (Oregon): “The Sisterhood, Literary Organizing, and the Archive” Erica Edwards (Rutgers): “Extraliterature and the Black Feminist Imperative” Respondent: Xiomara Santamarina Writing workshop: Michael Awkward, Madhu Dubey, Emily Lordi, Kevin Quashie, Xiomara Santamarina, Megan Sweeney, Courtney Thorsson, Jason Young Emily Lordi (Vanderbilt): “‘You Are the Second Person’: Uses of Direct Address in Contemporary African American Literature” Madhu Dubey (UIC): “Race-Craft … Read more
Margo Crawford (Penn): “Scenes of Loosening the Thick Time of Black Body/Slave Body” Kevin Quashie (Brown): “Poetic Inclination, Black Subjunctivity” Respondent: Aida Levy-Hussen Stephen Best (Berkeley): “The End of Black Studies” Please join the Departments of English and Afroamerican and African Studies for a series of events next week for the African American Literature and … Read more
Los Angeles-based artist Suzanne Lacy is internationally renowned as a pioneer in the field of socially engaged and public art. Her work incorporates the visions and voices of scores of people, in a practice that recognizes the essential collaborations involved in creativity. Her installations, videos, and performances have dealt with issues of sexual violence, rural and urban … Read more