Event Description:
The Latin American and Latinx Studies Department of John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Presents
Speaking Out of Turn:
Trans Women of Color Leading Movements for Freedom
Dr. Dora Silva Santana
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2020
1:40 - 2:55 PM
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For more information contact:
José Bernal, Administrative Coordinator, at jbernal@jjay.cuny.edu or 212-237-8749
Dr. Dora Silva Santana is an Assistant Professor in the Gender Studies Program, Department of Interdisciplinary Studies at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Dr. Santa- na will discuss how the experiences of trans women of color transnationally (with intersecting identities, such as Black, Latinx, disabled) are leading initiatives to transforma- tive justice and rearranging the politics, imagination and representation of free and accessible futures.
Dr. Dora Silva Santana’s work has been published in the Transgender Studies Quarterly (TSQ), The Issue of Blackness, under the title “Transitionings and Returnings: Experiments with the Poetics of Transatlantic Water,” and in the issue Trans in Las Americas, whose title is “Mais Viva! Reassembling transness, blackness and feminism.” She has been an artist-in-residence for allgo, a queer people of color organization in Austin, TX, in 2017 (with a solo Performance titled “Minha Filha! A black trans daughterhood”) and 2018 (with her watercolor paintings ex- hibit titled “Trans* Stellar Visions.”). She has also written for Feminist Wire, Daily Texan, and Blogueiras Negras. She has been recently featured on the podcast Cite Black Women on the episode titled “Experiences embodied in language and flesh.”
Co-Sponsors:
Gender Studies Program at John Jay College, La Voz, John Jay DREAMers, the Africana Studies Department, and the SEEK Department
Funding for this event was provided by a grant from the Office for the Advancement of Research at John Jay College.
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