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Queer Panels – Not an Exhaustive List 3/10 Queer Panels – not an exhaustive list 3/10 Session 2 Media Miedos: (Re)Visions of Trans and Queer Death, Threat, and Confinement in Mass Media Silvestre, Audrey. University of California, Los Angeles. “Afuera: A Trans Counter‐Narrative to Social Death.” Greenberg, Rachael. University of California, Los Angeles. “Marketing the Case for the Lethal Lesbian: A Queer Legal and Media Analysis of the State of Texas vs. Yolanda Saldívar.” Giddens Jr., Richard. University of Texas, San Antonio. “(De)criminalizing & (Re)humanizing Queer & Trans People‐of‐Color in the Media: Propagandized Bash‐Mobbing & the San Antonio Four.” Coronado, Itzel. Rutgers University. “Gilmore Girls Kept Me in the Closet.” Chair: Avalos, Rebecca. University of Colorado, Boulder. Session 3 Mariposas, Tomboys, Transx: Heroes and the Jotería Mata, Irene. Wellesley College. “A Seat on the Bus: Immigration, Queerness, and Art.” Heidenreich, Linda. Washington State University. “When Capital Shifts: Nepantler@s as Superheroes in Times of Epochal Change.” Pendleton Jiménez, Karleen. Trent University. “Tomboys and Other Gender Heroes: Chicana Butch Readings of Rural Youth.” Barcelo, Rusty. Northern New Mexico College. “Reflections of a Chicana Tomboy.” Session 6 Chicana/o/x Murals: Queer Representation, Peace & Restoration Rodriguez, Kaelyn. University of California, Los Angeles. “The Artivism of Maintaining Murals with Emerging Technologies.” Carrillo, Vicente. University of California, Los Angeles. “Digital Queer Muralism: Claiming Space and Place through Queer of Color Representation.” Rodriguez‐Gomez, Gabriela. University of California, Los Angeles. “Judith F. Baca’s World Wall and Mural Images of Peace for the Future.” Gutierrez, Ricky. University of Utah. “A Brown Boy in Drag: Reading a Queer Chicano/x Childhood through a Rasquache Methodology.” Session 6 Codex Nepantla: Chicana Feminist Epistemology in Spanish Gaspar de Alba, Alicia. University of California, Los Angeles. “Pocha Poetics: Coyo[l]teando Chicana Feminism to Mexico's Lesbo‐Feministas.” Pons, Maria Cristina. University of California, Los Angeles. “¿Cómo se diría “in‐betweeness”? The Challenges of Translation and Trans‐Interpretation.” Arrizon, Alicia. University of California, Riverside. “Theorizing Feminist/Queer Chicana Discourse in Translation.” Aviles, Elena. Portland State University. “When Greater Mexico Speaks Back: Notes on Coyoteando Chicana Theory.” Ruiz, Sandra. West Los Angeles College. “Can the Pocha Trans‐Interpret? Linguistically Processing Codex Nepantla.” Moderator: Lopez, Tiffany. Arizona State University. Session 7 The Global Staging of Brown Abjection Rodriguez y Gibson, Eliza. Loyola Marymount University. “Miss Piggy, Visible Belly Outlines, and Fat Chicana Feminism: Styling the Body Politic.” Rodriguez, Richard. University of California, Riverside. “'Straight into some Chicano chick’s eyes’: The Shining Sinners of Queer Post‐Punk.” Hernandez, Mariano. California State University, Fullerton. “Metal: Revolución through Organized Noise.” Chair: Lopez, Marissa. University of California, Los Angeles. “Chicano Punk and the Politics of Brown.” Session 7 Imagining Queertopias in Chicana/o Literature and Theatre Aragon, Cecilia. University of Wyoming. “Representations of Sexual Identities and Queertopias in Chicana/o Children's Literature.” Tijerina Revilla, Anita. University of Nevada Reno. “Queertopic fluidity: On Becoming a Queer by Choice.” Pignataro, Margarita. University of Wyoming. “Warring in Queertopia: Cherríe Moraga’s Writings and Gender Fluid Identity.” Chair: Perez, Daniel Enrique. University of Nevada Reno. Session 8 All Power to the Archivists: Narratives in action against colonialism Godoy, Nancy. Arizona State University. “Engage, Educate, Empower! 21st Century Community Outreach & Collection Development.” Zepeda, Lizeth. Arizona Historical Society. “Disidentifying with the archive: Queering Colonial Structures through Praxis.” Jacinto, Irlanda. University of Wyoming. “When you know the bridge will fall: dilemmas of decolonizing white archival institutions.” Chair: Flores, Xaviera. University of California, Los Angeles. “¡Si Se Puede!: Empowering the Chicana/o Community through Archives and Bilingual Access.” Session 9 Reflections on the Lessons, Methodology, Pedagogy, and Publications by Horacio N. Roque Ramirez and His Interventions in Chicana and Chicano Studies Ramírez, Marla. San Francisco State University. “Horacio N. Roque Ramirez's Methodological Lessons: Familial Oral History and Archival Research as Needed Tools to Document the Life Experiences of Historically Marginalized Communities.” Ferrada, Juan Sebastian. University of California, Santa Barbara. “Sharing the Mic: Queer Reciprocity in the Legacy of Horacio N. Roque Ramírez.” Barragán Miranda, Janett. University of California, Santa Barbara. “Chican@ Studies: On the Impact of Horacio N. Roque Ramirez' Work In Shaping the Future of the Field.” Discussant: Curry, Julia. San José State University. Session 9 The Environmentalist, the Indigenous, the Queer, and La Viejita: Recognizing New and Old Identities in Chicanx Culture Ybarra, Priscilla. University of North Texas. “Chicana/o Studies and the Climate Crisis: Documenting 150 Years of Environmental Activism.” Alberto, Lourdes. University of Utah. “Indigenous Mexican Americans: At the Epistemological Edges of Chicano/a Studies.” Kessler, Elizabeth. University of Houston. “La Viejita: Strong, Powerful, and Finally Recognized.” Chair: Gonzalez, Maria. University of Houston. “Queering Identities: Anzaldúa’s New Mestiza.” Session 10 Roundtable: Mi Existir Es Resistir: Scholarly and Community Responses to Trans Latinx Needs Caraves, Jacqueline. University of California, Los Angeles. “Trans Self‐Preservation: Finding Resilience in Spirituality.” Salcedo, Bamby. TransLatin@ Coalition. “TransAccess: Addressing Health Needs of Trans Latinx in Southern California.” Gutierrez, Jorge. Familia: Trans Queer Liberation Movement. “#EndTransDetention and Not1More: Dismantling the US Deportation Machine on the Ground.” Session 10 Roundtable: Fat Chicanas, Putas & Queers… AY DIOS! Urquiza, Soraira. California State University, Northridge. Amaro, Jose. California State University, Northridge. Hernandez, Monica. California State University, Northridge. Guzman, David. California State University, Northridge. Chair: Gomez, Jocelyn. California State University, Northridge. Session 11 Xicanx and Native American Studies’ Intersecting Methodologies: Rerooting Indigenous Hxstories to the Land Zepeda, Susy. University of California, Davis. “Queer Xicanx Indígena Root Work: The Decolonization of Aztlán and Unsettling of Mestizaje in Chicanx Studies.” Quintero Lule, Cuauhtemoc. University of California, Davis. “El Espíritu del Matupari: Interweaving Indigenous Voices, Yaqui Cosmologies, and the Juan Banderas Revolution of 1825‐1833.” Figueroa, Rebeca. University of California, Davis. “(Re)mapping the Ancestors: Re‐Indianizing Aguascalientes with Archives and Stories.” Cornejo‐Warner, Daniel. University of California, Davis. “Towards an Indigenous Holistic Pedagogy in service of Urban Native, Xicanx, and Underrepresented Youth.” Chair: Moreno, Melissa. Woodland Community College. Session 11 Porous Genres: Literary Paradoxes and Inscriptions Gonzalez, Keri. University of Utah. “La Cojera como Alegoría del Mestizaje en Peel my Love Like an Onion de Ana Castillo.” Simone, Adrianna. University of California, Santa Barbara. “Subversive Chicana and Chicano Role Models: Decolonial Storytelling as Resistance in Michele Serros’ Chicana Falsa and Other Stories of Death, Identity, and Oxnard and How to be a Chicana Role Model.” Gonzalez, Liliana. University of Arizona. “Parties, Hangovers, and Other Effects: Chicana/o Counter‐narratives to the Narcosphere.” de la Garza Valenzuela, José. University of Illinois, Urbana‐Champaign. “High‐Risk Citizenship: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, Criminal Exposure, and Queer Belonging in Michael Nava’s The Death of Friends.” .
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