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:3431-5ce420f158d5c6b1edb441887e426a31@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260514T181055Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230329T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230329T173000 SUMMARY:WGSS Spring 2023 Speaker Series: Omi Salas-SantaCruz DESCRIPTION:\n&ldquo\;Invenatadas/Inventada: Addressing the Coloniality of Transgender Through Joterí\;a Selves&rdquo\;\n\nWhile recent sc holarship addresses how transness and brownness coexist within larger qu eer\, trans\, and Latinx historical experiences (Galarte 2021)\, we have yet to grapple with how gender-diverse Indigenous people across Abya Ya la design and curate trans selves in their encounters with dominant and Western trans knowledge of being/ existing. In this talk\, Omi Salas-San taCruz will engage decolonial and queer ethnic Indigenous studies to ana lyze how a group of "\;jotas inventadas"\;\, or made-up gender-d iverse queers\, craft and explain their existence by traveling across In digenous epistemic frameworks of thinking the "\;así\;"\;& nbsp\; (Kusch 2010\; DiPietro 2019)\, Joterí\;a (Hames-Garcí \;a 2013)\, and Anglo Western trans knowledge (Currah and Stryker 2014) to design\, or "\;invent"\; new notions of Jota selves that more accurately represents their practices of being/existing as gender-diver se people. Through interviews\, social media\, and Western digital story telling\, Omi will provide insight into the extent to which these commun ities of "\;jotas inventadas/inventada"\; challenge dominant scr ipts of racial and gender identity and craft new vocabularies and politi cal sensibilities against the backdrop of epistemic trans violence.\n\nF or more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/wgss-ossc_032923/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

“Inven atadas/Inventada: Addressing the Coloniality of Transgender Through Jote ría Selves”

While recent scholarship addresses ho w transness and brownness coexist within larger queer, trans, and Latinx historical experiences (Galarte 2021), we have yet to grapple with how gender-diverse Indigenous people across Abya Yala design and curate tran s selves in their encounters with dominant and Western trans knowledge o f being/ existing. In this talk, Omi Salas-SantaCruz will engage decolon ial and queer ethnic Indigenous studies to analyze how a group of " jotas inventadas", or made-up gender-diverse queers, craft and expl ain their existence by traveling across Indigenous epistemic frameworks of thinking the "así"  (Kusch 2010; DiPietro 2019) , Jotería (Hames-García 2013), and Anglo Western trans kno wledge (Currah and Stryker 2014) to design, or "invent" new no tions of Jota selves that more accurately represents their practices of being/existing as gender-diverse people. Through interviews, social medi a, and Western digital storytelling, Omi will provide insight into the e xtent to which these communities of "jotas inventadas/inventada&quo t; challenge dominant scripts of racial and gender identity and craft ne w vocabularies and political sensibilities against the backdrop of epist emic trans violence.

For more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/wgss-os sc_032923/

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