LATINX SPEAKER SERIES – OMARIS ZAMORA – Cigüapa Unbound: Afrolatinx Feminist Epistemologies of Tranceformation

Date

February 6, 2023

Time

3:10 pm – 5:00 pm

Location

403 Kent Hall

This talk offers a transnational examination of the Dominican folktale figure of La Cigüapa against the backdrop of colonialism, mining, and neoliberal capitalism from Hispaniola to Washington Heights. La Cigüapa’s aesthetics situates Blackness and gender in the Dominican context to see how Black Dominican women are erased, yet continuously find ways to exist.

Feb 6th, 2023, Monday, 3:10-5 PM

403 Kent Hall