Dr. Maylei Blackell, Associate Professor, César E. Chávez Department of Chicana/o Studies, Women’s Studies Department, and affiliated faculty in the American Indian Studies and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies, University of California – Los Angeles (UCLA) Dr. María Eugenia Cotera, Associate Professor, American Culture, Latina/o Studies, Women’s Studies, University of Michigan Dr. Elena Gutierrez, Associate Professor, Latin … Read more
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
Héctor Carrillo, Professor of Sociology and Gender & Sexuality Studies, Northwestern University Héctor Carrillo brings us into the lives of Mexican gay men who have left their home country to pursue greater sexual autonomy and sexual freedom in the United States. The groundbreaking ethnographic study brings our attention to the full arc of these men’s … Read more
Andrea Bolivar, LSA Collegiate Fellow (Women’s Studies) This event will be rescheduled for Fall 2020. Andrea Bolivar is a cultural anthropologist whose current project, “‘Somos una Fantasia’: Race, Violence, and Potentiality in Transgender Latina Sexual Economies of Labor” examines the experiences of sex working transgender Latinas in the Chicago metropolitan area. Her project interrogates … Read more