F228.

Latine/x Writers Writing Queerness, Queer Families, and Queer Communities

Rooms 435-436, Summit Building, Seattle Convention Center, Level 4
Friday, March 10, 2023
3:20 pm to 4:35 pm

 

In a celebratory gathering of Latine/x writers across various genres, sexualities, and gender identities, we discuss writing queerness, queer families (both lost and found), and queer communities. We examine what it means to be both Latine/x and LGBTQIA in the contemporary US and Latin America. How do the tensions and friction of this positioning manifest within literary work? In what ways do they block or generate innovative writing? How do we resist the dominant institutional models?



Outline & Supplemental Documents

Event Outline: AWP_Panel_Latine_Writers_LGBTQ.pdf

Participants

Moderator:

Jaquira Díaz is the author of Ordinary Girls, an Indies Introduce Selection, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection, and an Indie Next Pick. Her work has been published in Rolling Stone, the Guardian, The Fader, T: The New York Times Style Magazine, and The Best American Essays 2016.

Angie Cruz is the author of the novels, Dominicana and How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water. She teaches at University of Pittsburgh and is the editor of asterixjournal.com. For more info: angiecruz.com.

Carolina de Robertis (they/she) is the author of five novels, including The President and the Frog, finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the PEN/Jean Stein Award, and Cantoras, winner of a Stonewall Book Award and a Kirkus Prize finalist. She teaches at San Francisco State University.

Raquel Gutiérrez is a writer, critic, and educator. Her/Their first book Brown Neon was just published by Coffee House Press. She/They are a 2021 recipient of the Rabkin Prize in Arts Journalism. Gutiérrez teaches in the Oregon State University-Cascades Low Residency Creative Writing MFA Program.

Julián Delgado Lopera is an award-winning Colombian writer and historian based in San Francisco.

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