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New Book Translocas: The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance
Translocas: The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance by Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes has just been published by University of Michigan Press (2021).
[I love the cover, which features great photo of the outstanding performance artist Freddie Mercado. As soon as we get more information of the cover art, we will share!]
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Translocas focuses on drag and transgender performance and activism in Puerto Rico and its diaspora. Arguing for its political potential, Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes explores the social and cultural disruptions caused by Latin American and Latinx “locas” (effeminate men, drag queens, transgender performers, and unruly women) and the various forms of violence to which queer individuals in Puerto Rico and the U.S. are subjected. This interdisciplinary, auto-ethnographic, queer-of-color performance studies book explores the lives and work of cont
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Fiesta Plaza hosts D Jazz in We
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Kyle Richardson has been performing with Lion King but is back home as theatres are shut. He is looking forward to performing on the MovieTowne Fiesta Plaza stage. -
The Women in jazz series which was a staple at MovieTowne during April is being replaced by D Jazz in We.
The series which over the past nine years featured some of the best women jazz artistes in TT was cancelled last year due to the covid19 pandemic
From April 3, the new celebration, D Jazz in We will highlight four talented artistes on the Fiesta Plaza stage at Invaders Bay, Port of Spain. A media release from MovieTowne said the artistes will showcase many of the jazz standards as well as incorporate in their repertoire, a soca or calypso, performed in a cool Caribbean jazz style.
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A committee charged with reviewing the role of preceptors and senior preceptors within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences released a report early this month reaffirming its stance on time-capping appointments for the non-tenured positions, prompting disappointment among preceptors in various departments.
Convened by FAS Dean Claudine Gay in fall 2019, the committee concluded its work and submitted its report to Gay in May 2020, though the findings were only shared with preceptors this month. The report includes several recommendations, such as standardizing course loads for preceptors, as well as affirmations of existing policies, such as maintaining the term caps that have drawn criticism from preceptors in the past.