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PIKSI-Rock 2023: PJ DiPietro

Tuesday, June 6, 2023
2:00 p.m.–3:30 p.m.
Foster Auditorium, 102 Paterno Library
PIKSI-Rock 2023: PJ DiPietro

“Trans of Color, an Oxymoron: Sacredness, Selfhood, and Impressibility Beneath Animal Flesh”

PJ DiPietro, Syracuse University

Infrahuman flesh foregrounds colonial differences as they lie between animal and trans-monstrous embodiments. By engaging the body-politics of travesti communities in Argentina as well as queer and trans* Latinx communities in California, a novel model for decolonizing transgender arises. This model shifts our attention away from (trans)gender mobilities. Instead, it points to impressible transitions between mundane and spiritual domains underwritten by Quechua/Aymara and Nahua/K’ich’e cosmologies.

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Foster Auditorium, 102 Paterno Library

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