WHAT'S IN THE AMIGXS?
Modality: Zoom
Date: July 22nd, 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Register here: eventbrite
Description:
This workshop explores how the topics of friendship and being cuir relates to language and expression allowing the participants to explore further the exhibition "Amigxs Radicales". The workshop is organized and offered by this year's Latinx Project Fellow working with The Clemente, Silvia Rivera Alfaro, a sociolinguist expert on the topic of Spanish gender-fair language who will guide the participants by relating the topic to the exhibition.
As part of the workshop, the participants will explore the integration of words into portraits by informal art-making of drawings or collages representing a radical friend including words in Spanish and English. Participants will need to have pencils, colored pencils, paper, scissors, glue, crayons, and magazines.
Participants:
Silvia Rivera Alfaro is a Central American creative thinker and digital enthusiast. She is one of the creators of Indisciplinadxs: Feminist Linguistics. Silvia is a student of Hispanic sociolinguistics at the Ph.D. Program in Latin American, Iberian, and Latino Cultures (LAILAC) and a Digital Fellow at CUNY Graduate Center, where she also obtained a Certificate in Interactive Technology and Pedagogy. Currently, she is working on a digital dissertation that intertwines linguistic geography and feminist linguistics.
Silvia started to research on gender-fair language in 2015. Currently she is working on an open access book titled "Marking Gender in Spanish: A Guide for Language Learners", which is available on pressbooks.cuny.edu/spanishgender/
Las Mariquitas are a New York based Queer and Trans-centered salsa band and collective Las Mariquitas' Mobey Lola Irizarry, Kneeco Hanton & Luca Diaz working hard to change the narrative of this genre of music that although it has been tied to histories of struggles for black and Indigenous Liberation, and for decolonization in the Caribbean and Latin Americahas it has also had a persistent problem with misogyny, transphobia and queerphobia. Las Mariquitas assert and insert themselves with joy, resistance and new form liberations welcoming us into a safe space to express our authentic selves, love wholly and dance freely.
Acknowledgements:
*The Clemente Center for opening their doors for a Public Humanities
Fellow, for hosting this workshop and supporting in the production process. *The Latinx Project (New York University) for making this workshop possible via the Public Humanities Fellowship.
*Sofa Reeser del Río, Libertad Guerra, and Xavier Robles Armas for their guidance to connect this linguistic research with the exhibition.