My key texts and my theoretical framework(s): Broadly, my theoretical commitments are situated in cultural studies, with specific investments in Black and women of color feminisms and queer of color critique. In these traditions, felt experience is honored for its political implications. Feelings are “loaded with information and energy” (Lorde, 1981, p. 280): they facilitate the reproduction of oppression, and they animate and sustain transformative political action. In designing my specific conceptual framework, I draw heavily on Feeling Power: Emotions and Education by Megan Boler (1999); The Cultural Politics of Emotion by Sara Ahmed (2004); Cruel Optimism by Lauren Berlant (2011); …
Author: Karen Zaino
Event: About My Mother
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 2022 AT 8 PM EDT Online In this presentation, trans studies scholar Susan Stryker speaks in a personal as well as analytical manner, in this historical moment of crisis, about the possibilities for psychical repair bound up for her in the concepts of the maternal and the transfeminine. https://fb.me/e/192uXIltv
Event: Celebrating Rigoberto González & His Friends
Mon, Mar 7, 2022—Celebrating Rigoberto González and his Friends (7 pm) Performance Space New York, 150 First Ave, 4th Floor https://performancespacenewyork.org/show-category/reading/?fbclid=IwAR3Hq1Lg3t8RQWpkNxKZAHPuhTpUI0jVj-W2v86Ll_v_1xZ8QSkTbyzQJnM Free tix (required): https://ci.ovationtix.com/203/performance/10962593?performanceId=10962593With: Andrés Cerpa, Urayoán Noel, and Deborah Paredez
