BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:4910-a62f5105565097f715f3152708b62213@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260419T202512Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210927T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210927T133000 SUMMARY:CMLIT Luncheon with Omaris Z. Zamora DESCRIPTION:\n&ldquo\;Cigü\;apa Unbound: Tranceforming AfroLatina Fe minist Knowledges&rdquo\;\n\nOmaris \;Z. Zamora\n\nRutgers Universit y\n\n \;La Cigü\;apa is a figurative portal opener into the tran ce. Her unboundedness&mdash\;her strange embodiment with backward-facing feet\, her connection to the forest\, her refusal to be enclosed in the domestic space\, etc.&mdash\;is a framework for transnational AfroDomin ican women&rsquo\;s experiences of geographical movement\, as well as th e fluidity of our identities and their constant transformation to the po int that it is at times illegible\, unattainable\, and untraceable. I ex pand on this notion of &ldquo\;cigü\;apa unbound&rdquo\; by centerin g trance as a theoretical framework that makes visible the process throu gh which AfroLatinas\, form feminist knowledges informed through their e mbodied archives of memories and racialized and gendered experiences.\n\ nOmaris \;Z. Zamora is a transnational Black Dominican studies schol ar and spoken-word poet. Her research interests include: theorizing Afro Latinidad in the context of race\, gender\, sexuality through Afro-diasp oric approaches. Her current book project tentatively titled\, \;Cig ü\;apa Unbound: Tranceforming AfroLatina Feminist Knowledges\, \ ;examines the transnational Black Dominican narratives put forth in the work of Firelei Baez\, Elizabeth Acevedo\, Nelly Rosario\, Ana Lara\, Lo ida Maritza Pé\;rez\, Josefina Baez\, Cardi B\, and La Bella Chane l. Zamora pays close attention to how they embody their Blackness\, prod uce knowledge\, and shift the geographies of Black feminism in ways that recognize the legacies of Chicana/Latina and Black American feminist th eory in the United States\, but tends to the specific experiences of Afr oLatina women and their multiple genealogies. The manuscript proposes &l dquo\;tranceformation&rdquo\; as a continuous process that engages with the spiritual aspect of self-making and centers the body as an archive t hat creates and transmits an AfroLatina feminist epistemological theory. Her work has been published in \;Post45\, Latinx Talk\, Label Me La tina/o\, among others and has been featured on NPR&rsquo\;s \;Alt.La tino \;podcast. She fuses her poetry with her scholarly work as a wa y of contributing to a black poetic approach to literature and cultural studies.\n\nPlease register in \;advance.\n\nFor more details: https ://events.la.psu.edu/event/cmlit-luncheon_0927/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

“Cigü ;apa Unbound: Tranceforming AfroLatina Feminist Knowledges”

Omaris Z. Zamora

Rutgers University

 La Cigüa pa is a figurative portal opener into the trance. Her unboundedness&mdas h;her strange embodiment with backward-facing feet, her connection to th e forest, her refusal to be enclosed in the domestic space, etc.—i s a framework for transnational AfroDominican women’s experiences of geographical movement, as well as the fluidity of our identities and their constant transformation to the point that it is at times illegible , unattainable, and untraceable. I expand on this notion of “cig&u uml;apa unbound” by centering trance as a theoretical framework th at makes visible the process through which AfroLatinas, form feminist kn owledges informed through their embodied archives of memories and racial ized and gendered experiences.

Omaris Z. Zamora is a transnat ional Black Dominican studies scholar and spoken-word poet. Her research interests include: theorizing AfroLatinidad in the context of race, gen der, sexuality through Afro-diasporic approaches. Her current book proje ct tentatively titled, Cigüapa Unbound: Tranceforming AfroL atina Feminist Knowledges, examines the transnational Bl ack Dominican narratives put forth in the work of Firelei Baez, Elizabet h Acevedo, Nelly Rosario, Ana Lara, Loida Maritza Pérez, Josefina Baez, Cardi B, and La Bella Chanel. Zamora pays close attention to how they embody their Blackness, produce knowledge, and shift the geographie s of Black feminism in ways that recognize the legacies of Chicana/Latin a and Black American feminist theory in the United States, but tends to the specific experiences of AfroLatina women and their multiple genealog ies. The manuscript proposes “tranceformation” as a continuo us process that engages with the spiritual aspect of self-making and cen ters the body as an archive that creates and transmits an AfroLatina fem inist epistemological theory. Her work has been published in Pos t45, Latinx Talk, Label Me Latina/o, among others and has been featu red on NPR’s Alt.Latino podcast. She fuses her po etry with her scholarly work as a way of contributing to a black poetic approach to literature and cultural studies.

Please register in&nb sp;advance.

For more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/cmlit-luncheo n_0927/

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