2024 WHITNEY HUMANITIES CENTER WORKING GROUP ON
Queer Literature in Spanish
HOSTED BY IAN RUSSELL AND ALAN MENDOZA
2024 WHITNEY HUMANITIES CENTER WORKING GROUP ON
Queer Literature in Spanish
HOSTED BY IAN RUSSELL AND ALAN MENDOZA
Readings
Luis Aguilar, Mexico
This poetry collection throws a jarring and uncompromising eye at the world of male prostitution in Cuba. The author relies on direct, unadorned language to shake off readers' assumptions about sex-work, life, and capitalism.
Meeting date: January 25
Manu Tzoc, Guatemala
✨ Manu will join the session on Zoom! ✨
This collection of poems explores the complexities of queer life, love, and heartbreak. It does so with humor and a strongly critical voice against ideas of sexual normalcy.
Meeting date: February 8
Giuseppe Caputo, Colombia
This novel takes us to a poverty-stricken neighbourhood where a father and son struggle to survive. Rather than being discouraged by their hardship, the come up with imaginative and unusual plans.
Meeting date: February 22
Xavier Valcárcel, Puerto Rico
This poetry collection reflects about the power of voice in the contemporary world.
Meeting date: March 7
Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, Argentina
This novel tells the story of a transgender medium and healer who organizes her community against capitalist precarity, government violence, and consuming despondency, showing how love and joy can exist in collective survival.
Meeting date: April 4
Alexandra R. DeRuiz, Mexico-United States
This crónica documents the migration story of its author, one of Mexico's most outspoken trans activists.
Meeting date: April 18