Please join us for a lecture by Marisol LeBrón, 'Puerto Rican Feminists Confront the State,' for this year's Jan Cohn lecture in American Studies at Trinity. The lecture will take place in Rittenberg lounge tomorrow, Tues. 4/23 beginning at 4.15pm. Hope to see you there!

Documentary filmmaker and social activist Lourdes Portillo dies at 80 latimes.com/entertainment-…

Somewhere Edward Said is smiling down on the student protesters at Columbia.

RIP Lourdes Portillo (1944-2024), such an extraordinary filmmaker. Corpus: A Home Movie for Selena (1999), Conversations With Academics About Selena (1999), and Señorita Extraviada: Missing Young Woman (2001) profoundly transformed me. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lourdes_P…

Sasha Velour sashays into the culture wars wapo.st/3UrRyfB

‘Blackouts’ returns an erotic charge to a historical record. A review of Justin Torres's award-winning novel. wapo.st/49KPdkb

For Jose Quiroga. A page from 'Sex Variants: A Study of Homosexual Patterns' (1941), with redactions, interspersed throughout Justin Torres's “Blackouts” (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2023). I read three “little poems of illumination” at Jose's memorial at Emory on Monday, April 15.

Qué en paz descanse la extraordinaria directora chicana y mexicana Lourdes Portillo (1944-2024), una valiosísima artista. es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lourdes_P…

DRAGADEMIA at U-M Library was an author event organized by the Arts Initiative that included giving away 40 copies of Kareem Khubchandani's Decolonize Drag and 40 copies of Larry La Fountain (Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes)'s Translocas. LaWhore Vagistan & Lola von Miramar signed books after their talk & performances!

As part of DRAGADEMIA Lola von Miramar interpreted 'South American Way' by Carmen Miranda as conceived by Marisa Monte, as well as 'Puro Teatro' by the inimitable Cuban diva La Lupe, with lyrics by Tite Curet Alonso. The performance was in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.

Triumphant! DRAGADEMIA at the U-M Library with LaWhore Vagistan and Lola von Miramar was simply spectacular! Thank you so much umichArts & Culture for this fantastic event! Student, faculty, staff, and community turnout were extraordinary! Arts at Michigan U-M College of LSA UMich Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

Jewish faculty at Columbia-- Alisa Solomon, sarah haley, Marianne Hirsch, and Helen Benedict--call for resistance against the 'specious charges of rampant antisemitism to advance an illiberal agenda on campuses.' theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Congratulations to Joseph Plaster Joseph Plaster, whose book 'Kids on the Street' has won the Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction from Publishing Triangle!

Dragademia was an extraordinary event. Thanks to everyone who came out! LaWhore Vagistan & Lola von Miramar did a brilliant job talking about Kareem Khubchandani's Decolonize Drag and Larry La Fountain (Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes)'s Translocas! There were also performances!

Corilla, hicimos restock de mi best selling Caribbean Style totes collab con Checkinmela, ansori! Pueden catchearlos en mi tienda oficial online ✨ Link below and in bio 🩷

TODAY! Dragademia with LaWhore Vagistan and Lola von Miramar!
Thursday, April 18th, 2024
6:00-8:00pm
Hatcher Library Gallery
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
There will be free books for the first 40 people, food & a book discussion! RSVP: events.umich.edu/event/119923

Had a fantastic evening at #Dragademia with Lola von Miramar and LaWhore Vagistan! Thankful to be in a space that celebrates the power of drag, and I’ve added a couple of great books to my summer reading list!

got this off my chest, friends!

“El país le debe mucho”: lamentan la muerte del académico y periodista Félix Jiménez elnuevodia.com/entretenimient…