Transfeminist Provocations Against Fascism: Jennifer Ponce de León (An HCI Public Humanities Grant Project)
BICA (30 Essex St., Rear, Buffalo, NY 14213)
Militant art/militant humanities in the fight against transnational fascism
(Trans)feminist Provocations Against Fascism, is a series of encounters online and in person that will take place between August 23 and September 14 this fall. This encounter is part of CaldodeCultivo's yearly Arts & Politics Encounters and is supported by a Humanities New York HCI Public Humanities Grant awarded to Gabriela Cordoba Vivas.
Transfeminist Provocations Against Fascism is an encounter that explores the work of transfeminist and queer artists fighting through artistic interventions the growing fascist affects, policies and discourses that reactionary forces worldwide are imposing with regards to gender and sexuality. The featured artists and scholars use and study creative activism to contest fascist discourses and practices in our daily lives and in the political arena. The encounter consists in a series of public debates both online and in person about the role of art and humanities in the resistance against fascism and the creation of transfeminist futures with a strong Latin American accent.
Some of our guests will be joining us remotely, however we want to create a safe and critical face-to-face space to reflect and experience together the works of the invited artists, activist and scholars, focusing on how can we connect this global struggles to local matters. We will be meeting in three Buffalo artistic and cultural spaces that are important nodes in the local arts and culture ecosystem.
To participate fill the form below and we'll send you the zoom link and reading and audiovisual material from the authors and artists.
Associate Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, where she is also faculty in Latin American and Latinx Studies (LALS) and Comparative Literature; affiliated faculty in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies (GSWS) and Cinema Studies; and a member of the Graduate Group in Hispanic Studies.: Her interdisciplinary research focuses on 20th and 21st century Left movements and cultural production in the Americas and Marxist and anticolonial thought. She works across studies of visual arts, literature, and performance; transnational Latinx and Latin American studies; and critical theory.
