BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.3.3//EN TZID:America/Toronto X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Toronto BEGIN:VEVENT UID:19@sds.utoronto.ca DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20200226T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20200226T173000 DTSTAMP:20200210T194644Z URL:http://sds.utoronto.ca/events/sex-salon-queer-latinx-mexican/ SUMMARY:Sex Salon: Queer/Latinx/Mexican DESCRIPTION:The Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies invites you to our monthly Sex Salon series. This month our featured panel is enti tled "Queer/Latinx/Mexican".\n\nNo RSVP necessary | Refreshments | Discuss ion to follow\n\nFree | ALL WELCOME\n\nLocation: UC253\n\nOur panelists\, their presentation titles and abstracts can be found below:\n\nREMY ATTIG (presenting remotely)\nLiterary Doulas: Queer Women and the Birth of Spang lish Literature\n\nSpanglish\, the hybrid English-Spanish language variety spoken by many US Latinx communities has been written for over 200 years\ , but literature in which Spanglish is the dominant linguistic variety has existed only for a few decades. An early text in which Spanglish begins t o appear\, though is not yet the dominant “language” of the text is Gl oria Anzaldúa’s Borderlands La Frontera: The New Mestiza\, (1987). Many cite Giannina Braschi’s Yo-Yo Boing! (1998) as Spanglish’s first nove l\; Susana Chávez-Silverman’s crónicas came later in 2004. These are n ot isolated cases\; others have also published Spanglish literature during the period in question\, but these three Queer women have been highly inf luential contributors to its emergence. Most notably these are the first a uthors to use Spanglish in prose rather than in poetry or theatre\, an imp ortant distinction that I will explore in this paper. But the larger quest ion I propose to raise is why Queer women seem to be so disproportionately at the vanguard of publishing in Spanglish. Some insights can be found th rough sociolinguistics\, others may emerge from a consideration of Anzald úa’s own understandings of the “borderlands” as the space that is n ot merely where two states meet\, but where the atravesados—to use her t erm—live. Furthermore feminist and queer theories that question the trad itional divisions of identity into neat categories that rarely represent r eality may provide even more insight. The issue is intersectional\, to be certain\, and a paper such as this will likely raise more questions than i t can possibly answer.\n\nCARINA (ISLANDIA) GUZMÁN\nMagical Archives and Queer Nightlife\n\nMy doctoral research is based on the confluence of my p ersonal experience as an organizer of queer women’s nightlife events in Mexico City in the mid 2000’s\, and my academic formation in History\, G eography and Information. For this Sex Salon talk\, I am inspired by Dr. K areem Khubchandani\, a theatre scholar and drag performer known as LaWhore Vagistan\, to address the relationship between imagined territories of ma gical creation such as Vagistan and Machistán\, and the physical spaces o f queer nightlife where drag shows and parties are actualized.I propose th at said magical imagined territories constitute a queer archive\, and sket ch the relationship between it and actualized events in physical space as interdependent. That is\, through my interpretation of what José Muñoz r efers to as a queer utopian gesture\, I will discuss how the bodies and af fect that come together in space arise from a magical archive that envisio ns idealized territories.\n\nROBERT FRANCO\nExpelling Contagion: Sexual Di versity and Gender Dissidence in Mexico’s Revolutionary Left\n\nThis pap er is derived from a dissertation on the history of sexual politics in the Mexican Left after 1968. Issues of sex and sexuality have been in an unea sy\, if not antagonistic\, relationship with the revolutionary politics of the Mexican Communist Party (PCM) and other left-wing organizations since their foundation. However\, between 1980-1981\, leftist parties such as t he PCM enacted tolerance measures to reconcile the generational divide ove r the politicization of sexuality. Nevertheless\, scandals and clashes ove r sexual rights continued well into the end of the twentieth century. In t his paper\, I compare two cases of expulsion from leftist parties and orga nizations: one from 1979 and another from 2001. Though\, in the Mexican ca se\, expulsions for sexual and gender dissidence were rare\, both the gay militant Mario Rivas and the transgender activist Irina Layevska Echeverr ía Gaitán claim to have been kicked out of their respective organization s. Both cases\, however\, are difficult to verify due to a lack of formal documentation and the reliance on oral testimony. I compare both cases in order to highlight some of the epistemological tensions in oral history an d the complex dynamics of sexual politics in Mexico’s leftist organizati ons.\n\nThe panel will be chaired by Juan Carlos Mezo González\, PhD Cand idate in History and Sexual Diversity Studies here at UofT\n\nLocation: Un iversity College\, University of Toronto\, Room 253\n\nDue to the UC Revit alization Project Construction\, there will be no wheelchair-accessible en trance to University College until further notice. Since the UC Quad is a high-traffic construction area during the project\, the entry must be rest ricted as a safety precaution. We hope to have accessible entrance re-open ed as soon as possible. If you plan to attend Sex Salon and need accessibi lity assistance\, please notify the event organizers at sds.sexsalon@gmail .com to arrange an escort through the construction zone.\n\nFor informatio n on all construction-related closures and a list of available entrances\, please visit: https://www.uc.utoronto.ca/uc-under-construction END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Toronto X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Toronto BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20191103T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR