Arnaldo Cruz-Malavé: "Queer Latino Testimonio: Writing the Self and Community"

American Studies | David C. Driskell Center for the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora | English | Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center | The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies | Spanish and Portuguese Tuesday, February 16, 2010 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies Program (LGBT) is sponsoring its Spring 2010 lecture series, Bent Voices: Queer of Color Interventions beginning Tuesday, Feb. 16. The first speaker will be Arnaldo Cruz-Malavé.

The lecture series speakers push beyond the limits of visibility and work toward new imaginings of narrative and embodiment as they discuss not being content with troubling the norms of both hetero- and homo- sex and gender systems. Refusing to be bound by the established discourses of queerness or of queer of color critique, this audacious group of emerging scholars asks, What psychosocial possibilities come into view when queers trouble traditional forms of ethnic narratives? How does queer of color critique work when confronted with trans-embodiments? Can queer manipulations of place alter pre-fabricated imaginaries? Intervening in ongoing conversations about the interconnectedness of race and sexuality, BENT VOICES come from many directions and compel us to new modes of listening.

Arnaldo Cruz-Malavé is a professor of Spanish and comparative literature at Fordham University. Cruz-Malavé is the author of Queer Latino Testimonio, Keith Haring, and Juanito Xtravaganza: Hard Tails (2007) and co-editor, with Martin Manalansan, of Queer Globalizations: Citizenship and the Afterlife of Colonialism (2002).

The lecture series is co-sponsored by Undergraduate Studies, the African American Studies, American Studies (including U.S. Latina/o Studies), Anthropolgoy, English, Spanish and Portuguese, and Women's Studies departments; the Driskell Center, the Latin American Studies Center, and Asian American Studies Program.

This event is free and open to the public. A reception will follow.

For more information, visit LGBT.

Add to Calendar 02/16/10 5:00 PM 02/16/10 6:30 PM America/New_York Arnaldo Cruz-Malavé: "Queer Latino Testimonio: Writing the Self and Community" The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies Program (LGBT) is sponsoring its Spring 2010 lecture series, Bent Voices: Queer of Color Interventions beginning Tuesday, Feb. 16. The first speaker will be Arnaldo Cruz-Malavé.

The lecture series speakers push beyond the limits of visibility and work toward new imaginings of narrative and embodiment as they discuss not being content with troubling the norms of both hetero- and homo- sex and gender systems. Refusing to be bound by the established discourses of queerness or of queer of color critique, this audacious group of emerging scholars asks, What psychosocial possibilities come into view when queers trouble traditional forms of ethnic narratives? How does queer of color critique work when confronted with trans-embodiments? Can queer manipulations of place alter pre-fabricated imaginaries? Intervening in ongoing conversations about the interconnectedness of race and sexuality, BENT VOICES come from many directions and compel us to new modes of listening.

Arnaldo Cruz-Malavé is a professor of Spanish and comparative literature at Fordham University. Cruz-Malavé is the author of Queer Latino Testimonio, Keith Haring, and Juanito Xtravaganza: Hard Tails (2007) and co-editor, with Martin Manalansan, of Queer Globalizations: Citizenship and the Afterlife of Colonialism (2002).

The lecture series is co-sponsored by Undergraduate Studies, the African American Studies, American Studies (including U.S. Latina/o Studies), Anthropolgoy, English, Spanish and Portuguese, and Women's Studies departments; the Driskell Center, the Latin American Studies Center, and Asian American Studies Program.

This event is free and open to the public. A reception will follow.

For more information, visit LGBT.