The official podcast of Latino Studies at UT
In this episode, Dr. Daisy Morales-Campos talks with Dr. Bernadine Waller about how her participation in the Intersectional Qualitative Research Methods Institute for Advanced Doctoral Students (the Institute) has impacted her research and career trajectory.
TEDx Talks: Hindered Help: African American Partner Violence Victims with Bernadine Waller
As the fall season is upon us, nature is in transition, and so are the worlds of the living and the dead. Dr. Rachel Gonzalez-Martin shares listener stories of the supernatural, and asks: Why are stories of the supernatural so popular in Latinx communities?
Resources:
Check out some other podcasts that focus on the Latinx and Texas culture and paranormal experiences and narratives.
Monstras podcast: https://www.monstraspodcast.com/podcast
Brenda Salguero and Dr. Orquidea Morales use their expertise and experiences, to explore the world of Latin American and Latinx folklore, horror, and monsters
The Night Owl podcast:https://www.thenightowlpodcast.com/
Ghost Hunting and Investigations into the Paranormal in and around Austin, Texas.
p1nkstar is, without a doubt, Austin’s Queer Pop Princess, and the tiara that she beautifully wears is a symbol of a lineage of diva pop stars that we have been grown up and danced along with. Yet her presence on the club scene is expansive in its ability to not only dismantle the gender binary system, with the glamour befitting of a Princess, but is also inserting a politics that centers transgender people of color into its performance repertoire. Let’s let P1nkstar guide us into her glam world, with saccharine-infused beats and songs that challenge our understanding of pop music.
Resources / Related Links:
GIRLS LIKE US PERFORMANCE
P1nkstar’s website
P1nkstar’s instagram
Laura G. Gutiérrez (she/her/hers/they/ella/elle) is a Mexican and Latinx performance studies, visual studies, and cultural studies scholar. Gutiérrez was born in Nuevo Ideal, Durango, Mexico, and, in 1977, migrated to Chicago. She currently resides in Austin, TX, but she’s also made homes in Tucson, AZ and Mexico City. Gutiérrez is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies at The University of Texas at Austin where she teaches courses related to (popular) culture. Her research revolves around the examination of gender, race, and sexuality in Latinx and Mexican performance and visual art. She is the author of Performing Mexicanidad: Vendidas y Cabareteras on the Transnational Stage (U of Texas Press, 2010), as well a number of articles, book chapters, and catalog essays. Because of her deep commitment to contemporary art and culture-makers, Gutiérrez is on the board of and part of the curating team of OUTsider Fest, an Austin-based queer transmedia nonprofit, and, occasionally, collaborates with artists.
p1nkstar™️ (ur fav electr0nic pop superstar!!) creates a world far removed from this dimensions binaries through music and conceptual shows mixing saccharine beats with subversive lyrics, tiaras with ball gags, and body hair with hypnotic ponytails. Merging hyperpop with neo-perreo and club, she has been described as “early Aughts Paris Hilton on Hello Kitty steroids” by The Austin Chronicle, who recently crowned her as their Queer Pop Princess. In her live performances p1nkstar affectionately delivers pure pop performance, mixing witty vocals with electronic beats and video interludes with choreographed numbers and back-up dancers. Since her performance debut in late 2016, p1nkstar has shared bills with Charli XCX, Crystal Waters, The Ladies of LCD Soundsystem, Alok V. Menon, Dorian Electra, JD Samson, OSHUN, and Sateen.
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p1nkstar released her debut EP “Number 1 Hits!” March 6 2020, featuring five songs produced in collaboration with Mr.Kitty, Ben Aqua & Boy Sim. Bringing her Latinx roots to the increasingly popular hyperpop genre, p1nkstar lays out a bilingual story that touches on the complexities of her queer, trans and immigrant identities in our hyper-mediated digital world. The EP consists of futuristic beats and highly-processed vocals in which p1nkstar renders and invites her listeners into a queer futurity she envisions.
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Since moving from Mexico in 2014, p1nkstar has rapidly become an emblematic figure in the Texas nightlife scene by opening inclusive spaces that center that work of queer and trans artists of color in a city that is rapidly becoming whiter and straighter. p1nkstar has received two Best of Austin awards for her space-making work in the arts and nightlife & has been presented as the future of nightlife by The Austin Chronicle.
Many Latinxs, especially from younger generations, have come out strongly in support of the movement for Black Lives. For many, they’ve approached this activism from a model of Black-Brown solidarity. But where does this model leave Afro-Latinxs? In this episode we interrogate the question: what is wrong with those signs that say Latinxs for Black Lives?
Karma R. Chávez is an associate professor and chair of the Department of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies at UT.
Paul Joseph López Oro will start a position as an assistant professor at Smith College this fall. He teaches courses on Black Latin American and U.S. Black Latinx social movements, Black diaspora theories and ethnographies, and Black feminisms/queer theory. His research interests include Black politics in Latin America, the Caribbean and U.S. AfroLatinidades, Black Latinx LGBTQ movements and performances, and Black transnationalism. He is working on his first book manuscript, Hemispheric Black Indigeneity: The Queer Politics of Self-Making Garifuna New York, an ethnographic and oral history study on how gender and sexuality shape the ways in which Garifuna New Yorkers of Central American transgenerational descent negotiate, perform and articulate their multiple subjectivities as Black, indigenous and Latinx.
Twitter
Karma: @QueerMigrations
Pablo: @BlackCatrachoBK
Resources
Gentefied’s Julissa Calderon: “It’s Time for Latinxs to Step up for Black Lives Matter”
The Latino Community Is Finally Coming to Grips With Its Own Racism
Latinos must confront ‘ingrained’ anti-black racism amid George Floyd protests, some urge
Afro-Latin@s in Movement: Critical Approaches to Blackness and Transnationalism in the Americas
Neither Enemies nor Friends: Latinos, Blacks, Afro-Latinos
The Afro-Latin@ Reader: History and Culture in the United States
Theorizing Race in the Americas: Douglass, Sarmiento, Du Bois, and Vasconcelos