Wednesday, October 21, 2009

UC to host "Drag Queens in Bolivia"

Drag Queens in Bolivia: Cuerpos Desobedientes, Transgresión Transformista (Disobedient Bodies, Gender-Bending Transgressions)

David Aruquipa Perez, A.K.A. Danna Galan

12:30-1:30pm

Tuesday, October 27

615 Old Chemistry Hall at the University of Cincinnati

Since 2006, David Aruquipa Perez has been National Director of Cultural Patrimony in the Ministry of Educationand Culture of the government of President Evo Morales. He has a master’s degree in gender studies. Since 2001, David (A.K.A. Danna Galan) has facilitated the internationally renowned gender bender troupe, La Familia Galan. Perez will comment on diverse initiatives to advance intersectional critiques of racial, gender, sexual and political-economic inequality in Bolivia and beyond.

This event is sponsored by the University of Cincinnati Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.

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