Trans/formations: Gender and Sexuality in Latin America

Session Submission Type: Panel

Abstract

This panel intends to dialogue with issues of identity of transgender and transsexual people, drag queens, and other forms of non-gender conformity to tease out the contradictions of national discourses of gender and sexuality. Because such expressions of identity transcend local geographies, this panel also seeks to conceptualize queerness as a place for methodological inquiry, as well as a time for trans/formations into other practices of sociality, desire, and belonging.

Sub Track

• Genders, Feminisms and Sexualities

Chair

• Consuelo Y Cervantes, Saint Mary's College

Individual Presentations

• Stella Manhattan o la consagración de la resistencia - Jesús Ernesto Ortíz-Díaz, Macalester College

• Al diablo la maldita primavera: “Y desde entonces yo sólo sé de perras” - Consuelo Y Cervantes, Saint Mary's College

• Dragging Time: Politics of Shine and Poetics of Hope in Mexican Drag Video Performance - David Tenorio, University of California, Davis

• La fusión del baile y la prostitución en Muchacho en la barra se masturba con rabia y osadía (2015) de Julián Hernández - Jose C Del Toro, University of California/Santa Barbara