Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts

Poetry Reading and Workshop: Kinsale Drake and Maritza N. Estrada (Read More)

Join poets Kinsale Drake and Maritza N. Estrada for a reading and discussion, followed by an ekphrastic poetry workshop in conjunction with Raven Halfmoon’s exhibition Flags of Our Mothers. Poems written during this workshop will be collected into a chapbook available for download.

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Live @ LOW END | madison moore: there’s always energy for dancing (Read More)

This event—equal parts lecture and dance party—will explore the iridescence of queer nightlife, weaving together oral history and intergenerational family narrative, alongside the legacies and possibilities of queer nightlife to tell a story about queerness and opulence. Free and open to all. madison moore is an artist-scholar, DJ, and assistant professor of Critical Studies at the Roski School of Art and Design at the University of Southern California. madison holds a Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University and has previously held positions at Virginia Commonwealth University, The New School, the University of Richmond, and King’s College London, and has also been a visiting guest artist at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale. They are broadly invested in the aesthetic, sonic, and spatial strategies queer and trans people of color use to both survive and thrive in the face of rolling catastrophe. His first book Fabulous: The Rise of the Beautiful Eccentric (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018), offers a cultural analysis of fabulousness as a practice of resistance.

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Jillian Hernandez: Aesthetics of Excess: The Art and Politics of Black and Latina Embodiment (Read More)

Jillian Hernandez will discuss her book, Aesthetics of Excess, examining how bodies of women and girls of color are racialized through cultural discourses that mark them as sexual “others,” and how in turn, aesthetic value is generated through the presentation of their bodies. Through innovative relational readings, she shows how notions of high and low culture are complicated when women and girls of color engage in cultural production and how they challenge the policing of their bodies and sexualities through artistic authorship. The event will also stream live online. See the event website for details. Jillian Hernandez is a scholar, community arts educator, curator, and creative. Her work is inspired by Black and Latinx life and imagination, and is invested in challenging how working-class bodies, sexualities, and cultural practices are policed through gendered tropes of deviance and respectability. Dr. Hernandez received her Ph.D. in Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University and is an Assistant Professor in the Center for Gender, Sexualities, and Women’s Studies Research at the University of Florida.

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