Nameplates and Perreo: The Queerness of Chongas
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About the talk:
This webinar talk explores how working class aesthetics of excess are activated as
a medium for performances of queer and femme of color pleasure and community. I explore
the work of artist Joel Gaítan, activist, healer, and advice columnist Maria Pero
No Santa (Maria Saldana), rapper and reggaetonera LaGoony Chonga, and drag performers
Juliesy in Bed and Karla Croqueta.
About the speaker:
Jillian Hernandez studies the autonomous aesthetics and sexualities of Black and Latinx
people. Her scholarship crosses the fields of art history, performance, gender, ethnic,
Latinx, and Black studies, and is informed by her work as a community arts educator,
curator, and cultural producer. Her book Aesthetics of Excess: The Art and Politics of Black and Latina Embodiment, published by Duke University Press, traces how the body practices and art making of
Black and Latinx women and girls are intertwined, and how their creative work complicates
conventional notions of cultural value and sexual respectability. She is an Associate
Professor in the Center for Gender, Sexualities, and Women’s Studies Research at the
University of Florida and is currently organizing an exhibition featuring the work
of Pamela Council, Yvette Mayorga, and Kenya (Robinson) for the Flaten Art Museum.
Her work has appeared in Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory, American Quarterly, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, and the Journal of Popular Music Studies, among other venues. Her scholarship is based on and inspired by over a decade of
community arts work with Black and Latinx girls in Miami, Florida through the Women on the Rise! program she established at the Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami in addition
to her practice as an artist and curator.
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