This talk features new analytics for hearing and discerning transgressive voices and bodies in hegemonic cultural matrices, and critiques that North-South trajectory and hemispheric demarcations of scholarship on/in Brazil by reading lusophone cultural repertories as formations of Black queer diasporas.
Dr. Daniel da Silva is assistant professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Rutgers University. His forthcoming book, Trans Tessituras: Transatlantic and Transgender Bodies of Luso-Afro-Brazilian Popular Music analyzes contemporary queer artists in Brazil, Portugal and Angola to reveal how they transgress and remake the gendered conventions of popular lusophone music genres. A second manuscript, Favela Feminism, is also forthcoming.
Co-sponsored by The Center for Research in Feminist, Queer, and Transgender Studies, and the Program for Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies
This will be an in person talk.
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Location: GSWS Conference Room, Fisher-Bennett Hall 345, 3340 Walnut St.