The Queer Nuyorican: Performance and Poetry

Karen Jaime, Ph.D is an Assistant Professor of Performing and Media Arts and Latina/o Studies at Cornell University. Her book project The Queer Loisada: Language and Performance at the Nuyorican Poets Café, uses hip-hop studies, alongside critical race, queer, literary, and performance theories in order to deminstrate the ways in which historically pejorative identity markers are recuperated and recodified as useful tools in the development of contemporary aesthetic practices. 

Friday April 6th

Open Mic

Occum Commons

8pm-9:30pm

Sponsored by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Leslie Center for Humanities, the Department of Theater’s VOICES Program, the Latin American, Latino, and Caribbean Studies Program and the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.