• Carmen Jarrín on the joys and hazards of trans art and activism in Brazil

  • Apr 24 2024
  • Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
  • Podcast
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Carmen Jarrín on the joys and hazards of trans art and activism in Brazil

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  • Carmen Jarrín (College of the Holy Cross) engages in a conversation about ethnographic research on trans and travesti creators and activists in Brazil’s artivismo movement as they contend with violence and right-wing nationalism. Carmen connects this work to earlier investigations of plastic surgery, biopolitics, and relationships between gender, beauty, and national identity in Brazil.

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    To learn more about the Latin American and Caribbean Studies program at WPI, visit https://www.wpi.edu/academics/departments/humanities-arts/latin-american-caribbean-studies

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