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
J. Logan Smilges, Assistant Professor of English Language and Literatures, University of British Columbia M. Remi Yergeau, Associate Professor of Digital Studies and English, University of Michigan David Adelman, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Digital Accessible Futures Lab, University of Michigan The value of visibility is contingent on a variable, embodyminded social currency. Being seen tends to benefit most … Read more