Book Launch: Transmovimientos: Latinx Queer Migrations, Bodies, and Spaces

Event Date: 

Wednesday, October 13, 2021 - 3:00am to 5:00am

Event Date Details: 

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Event Location: 

  • Zoom Conference

Event Price: 

Free

Event Contact: 

Fallon Leung, ffleung@ucsb.edu

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  • Ellie Hernandez
  • Magda Garcia
Please join the Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies to celebrate thepublication of Transmovimientos: Latinx Queer Migrations, Bodies, and Spaces.
 

About the Book:

This anthology that identifies transmovimientos as the creative force or socialmechanism through which queer, trans, and gender-nonconforming Latinxcommunities navigate their location and calibrate their consciousness. Thiscollection forms a nuanced conversation between scholarship and socialactivism that speaks in concrete ways about diasporic and migratory LGBTQcommunities who suffer from immoral immigration policies and politicaldiscourses that produce untenable living situations.
 

Contributing Authors:

Associate Professor Dr. Ellie D. Hernández, UCSB Chicana and Chicano Studies

Assistant Professor Dr. Eddy Francisco Alvarez Jr., California State University,Fullerton Chicana/o Studies

Postdoctorate Dr. Magda Garcia, UCSB Chicana and Chicano Studies

 

Moderators:

Dr. PJ DiPietro, Syracuse University

Dr. Rita E. Urquijo-Ruiz, Trinity University