We cordially invite you to a CCAS Talk by Dr. Francisco J. Galarte:
Title: “Dolorous Gender”
Abstract: This lecture builds upon the work in Brown Transfiguration: Rethinking Race, Sex, Gender and Sexuality in Chicanx/Latinx Studies by proposing the affect of dolor as a conceptual framework for analyzing and theorizing the psycho-sexual affective registers of racialized femininities and masculinities. While demonstrating the connections between trans studies and Chicanx/Latinx studies, the talk focuses on the lives of trans feminine sex workers on the Juárez/El Paso Border before NAFTA and the dolorous imprints these women have left upon how we understand the region’s response to the HIV/AIDS crisis of the 1990s, via border policing, feminicide and urban renewal. The photographic work of Mexican artist Teresa Margolles provides a dolorous point of entry for excavating a history of trans-feminization on the border by both the US and Mexican nation states, as well as the extractive colonial imaginings of feminist researchers.
Biography: Francisco J. Galarte is an Associate Professor of American Studies and Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Director of the Feminist Research Institute at the University of New Mexico, and currently serves as the executive editor of the journal TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly (Duke Univ Press). He is the author of Brown Trans Figurations: Rethinking Race, Gender and Sexuality in Chicanx/Latinx Studies (University of Texas Press, 2021), which was awarded the Allan Bray Memorial Book Prize, by the MLA GL/Q Caucus (2022), the John Leo and Dana Heller Award by the Popular Culture Association (2022), and the Book of the Year Award by the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education (2022). Most recently, he has begun working on a second book project tentatively entitled, Dolorous Gender: The Problem of Chicanx/Latinx Femininities and Masculinities.
Date: Monday, April 22th, 2024
Time: 2:00 – 3:30 pm
Location: Haines Hall, 144
