Presentation-performance by Lia García: “I am the trans bride: Affection, seduction and radical tenderness to combat transphobia and pain.” García is a Mexico City-based performance artist, activist, and educator whose work has been featured at the Annual Encuentro of the Hemispheric Institute of Politics and Performance at NYU, Harvard University, and the University of Texas at Austin, among other universities and cultural centers across the Americas and Europe. Her work incorporates transfeminist critical pedagogies, trans*ness, activism through her method of encuentros afectivos, affective encounters.
This event is hosted by the Humanities Research Institute and is being amplified as part of the 2022 LGBT History Month Calendar.
