What’s in a name?
- Miguel Algarín, “Nuyorican Language”
- Gloria Anzaldúa: “How to Tame a Wild Tongue”
- Catalina (Kathleen) M. de Onís: “What’s in an x ?: An Exchange about the Politics of Latinx’”
Why Latinx American performances matter?
- Diana Taylor, “Hacia una definición de performance”
- Guillermo Gómez-Peña, “Performance and Theatre”
- Alberto Sandoval-Sánchez, “Carmen Miranda and Desi Arnaz: Foundational Images of ‘Latinidad’ on Broadway and in Hollywood”‘
Flash mobs as critical interventions
- Rita Segato, “Territory, Sovereignty and Crimes of the Second State: The Writing on the Body of Murdered Women” (BB)
- Mar Pichel, “Rita Segato, la feminista cuyas tesis inspirador ‘Un violador en tu camino’”
- Jenny Pribble, “Chile’s Crisis Was Decades in the Making.”
- Jenny Pribble, “Chile’s Elites Face Demands for Reform.”
- Julieta Suárez-Cao & Alondra Arellano, “Feminist Protests and the Claim for a Non-Sexist Education: How the Feminist Wave and #MeToo Movement Flooded Latin American Universities” (BB)
- Annalisa Merelli, “Learn the Lyrics and Dance Steps for Chilean Anthem Spreading Around the World
- Lauren Aratani, “More Than 100 Women Protest Trump and Weinstein with Anti-Rape Anthem”
From global to local: Creating an anti-rape anthem specific to UR
- Diana Taylor, “Acts of Transfer,” The Archive and the Repertoire.
- Marcela Fuentes, “Performance Constellations: Memory and Event in Digitally Enabled Protests in the Americas.”
- Intervention The Invisible Truth: An Exposition of Gender Violence and Our Demands for Change by LALIS/WGSS seminar “Embodied Politics in Latin America: Race, Gender, Sex, and Performance,” taught by Dr. Mariela Méndez in the Spring of 2018.
Dance as a form of resistance
- Jade Power Sotomayor and Pablo Luis Rivera, “Puerto Rican Bomba: Syncopating Bodies, Histories, and Geographies” (BB)
- View La Bomba: A Puerto Rican Form of Resistance Through Creative Expression
Scenarios of Discovery & Conquest
- Coco Fusco, “The Other History of Intercultural Performance, English is Broken, 37-64. (BB)
- Vivian Martínez Tabares, “Yuyachkani: Despertar la memoria y el gesto de Ismene,” Revista Conjunto 121,. 10-15. (BB)
Colonial archives & queer history
- Vivian Martínez Tabares, “Yuyachkani: Despertar la memoria y el gesto de Ismene,” Revista Conjunto 121,. 10-15. (BB)
- View Persistencia de la memoria, Documentary on Yuyachkani.
When history and embodied practices collide
- Jesusa Rodríguez & Liliana Felipe, Juana la larga.
- Maria Elena Martinez, “Archives, Bodies and Imagination: The Case of Juana Aguilar and Queer Approaches to History, Sexuality, and Politics.”
- Diana Taylor, “We have Always been Queer.”
From self-mutilation to urination
- View Hemispheric Institute Interviews, Entrevista con Regina José Galindo.
- View photos of Regina José Galindo in ¿Quién puede borrar las huellas?
- View video of Regina José Galindo, ¿Quién puede borrar las huellas?
- View Encuentros, “Cuerpo de trabajo” Regina José Galindo”
Pushing body limits to protest femicide and violence against women
- Diana Taylor, “Regina Galindo: ‘Aún de pie’: Earth (Tierra) 2013,” Revista Conjunto 177, 80-85.
- Candice Amich, “The Limits of Violence: Regina José Galindo and Neoliberalism’s Gendered Economies of Violence, ”Performance, Feminism, and Affect.
Teatro imagen & Regina José Galindo
- Diana Taylor, “Regina Galindo: ‘Aún de pie’: Earth (Tierra) 2013,” Revista Conjunto 177, 80-85. (BB)
- Candice Amich, “The Limits of Violence: Regina José Galindo and Neoliberalism’s Gendered Economies of Violence, ”Performance, Feminism, and Affect (BB)
Performing en/con la naturaleza
- “From Inscription to Dissolution: An Essay on Expenditure in the Work of Ana Mendieta,” Corpus Delecti (BB)
- José Esteban Muñoz, “Vitalisms after-burn: The sense of Ana Mendieta”
Debra Kuetzpal Vasquez, Dualidad: Todas las partes de mi ser
Westham Burying Ground Report
- Read Westham Burying Ground Report
Queering Afro-Carribean Performance
- Karen Jaime, “‘Da pa’ lo’ do’: Rita Indiana’s Queer, Racialized Dominicanness,” small axe 47.
- Lorna Torrado, “Travesías bailables: Revisión histórica en la música de Rita Indiana Hernández,” Revista Iberoamericana 243.