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The Borders of Queer Latinidad
October 6, 2021 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
This events starts a conversation about Queer Latinidad, an imaginary community situated at the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and nation. Topics covered include LGBTQ migrant activism at the U.S.-Mexico border alongside cultural interventions that bring light to queer Latinx lives. This events starts a conversation about Queer Latinidad, an imaginary community situated at the intersections of race, gender, sexuality and nation and features speaker Ruben Zecena, an assistant professor of English at Texas State University.
This events starts a conversation about Queer Latinidad, an imaginary community situated at the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and nation. Topics covered include LGBTQ migrant activism at the U.S.-Mexico border alongside cultural interventions that bring light to queer Latinx lives. Topics covered include LGBTQ migrant activism at the U.S.-Mexico border alongside cultural interventions that bring light to queer Latinx lives.
Meeting ID: 928 9241 1895
Passcode: HHM2021
Part of PNW’s Hispanic Heritage Month Celebration.
About Ruben Zecena
Ruben Zecena is an assistant professor of English at Texas State University. He explores the cultural productions of queer and trans migrants as important avenues for imagining the world differently.
Born in El Salvador, Ruben is on a constant search for “home” and specializes in queer migration studies, border studies, and Latinx literature and culture. His scholarship appears or is forthcoming in WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly, Constellations: A Cultural Rhetorics Publishing Space, Diálogo, an Interdisciplinary Studies Journal, Border-Lines, amongst others. He is currently working on a book tentatively titled, Impossible Possibilities: The Unruly Imaginaries of Queer and Trans Migrants, that analyzes how queer and trans migrants in the U.S. forge a sense of self within and against the frameworks of the nation-state.
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