QTPOC Corner
UC San Diego
The Raza Resource Centro
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This is a brave space, online, where we are attempting to cultivate a sense of community via the internet by promoting QTPOC intellectuals, media, and artists.
We recognize how important our existing community on campus is. We will be highlighting individuals within said community every month.
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Media Highlight!
Movie: Paris is Burning (Apple tv)
The 80s seen through the eyes of NYC’s African American and Latinx Harlem drag ball scene, an intimate portrait of rival fashion “houses,” from fierce contests for trophies, to house mothers offering sustenance in a world rampant with homophobia, racism, AIDS, and poverty. Featuring legendary voguers, drag queens, and trans women including Willi Ninja, Pepper LaBeija, Dorian Corey, and Venus Xtravaganza.
Artist Showcase
Marco Dasilva
Marco DaSilva is a Brazilian-American artist whose symbol-based works explore hybridity through the intersections of painting and craft. His graphic style of making combines painting and collaging of objects, textures and mediums. His works use bright bold colors that investigate ritual and storytelling through a queer lens. He creates his own mythology in the process, providing a richly saturated landscape of his own world to the viewer.
DaSilva has had solo exhibitions at The Bureau of General Services-Queer Division and Abrons Arts Center. He was a NYFA Artist as Entrepreneur Fellow, a Visual Art Fellow for Queer|Art|Mentorship and an artist-in-residence at Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Arts Center. His work has been featured in The New York Times, Hyperallergic and NBC OUT’s “12 queer artists whose work is making us pay attention” His work is also included in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Watson Library.
Where to find their art!
Affiliated Website!
Empire State Casper
Neither Here Nor There
Of Water, Of Land, Of Sky