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The Queer Nuyorican: Racialized Sexualities and Aesthetics in Loisaida

A Book Launch and Celebration!

Thursday, February 24, 2022, 6pm EST

The Hemispheric Institute cordially invites you to an evening of performance and conversation to celebrate the publication of Dr. Karen Jaime’s The Queer Nuyorican: Racialized Sexualities and Aesthetics in Loisaida (NYU Press, 2021).

The Nuyorican Poets Cafe has been a fixture of the arts on the Lower East Side and a home for slam poetry among Latinx New Yorkers for almost half a century. The Queer Nuyorican revises common histories of the Cafe that have tended to elide its constitutive queerness, both in terms of the gender expression of its performers as well as in terms of the aesthetics it cultivated.

Join us as we honor Karen Jaime’s pathbreaking scholarship and reflect on the history of the New York institution that is the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. Dr. Patricia Herrera and Dr. Arnaldo Cruz-Malavé will speak to the significance of Dr. Jaime’s book in the fields of Latinx Studies and Performance Studies, and for the legacy of the Cafe. Artists Regie Cabico, Emanuel Xavier, and Andrés Chulisi Rodríguez will perform poems and reflect on their relationship to the Cafe as queer performers.

The book launch also inaugurates our 2022 event series "Queering the Nuyorican and Archiving its Legacy." This series will mark the publication of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe Founders Archive in the Hemispheric Institute Digital Video Library (HIDVL), which Dr. Jaime was instrumental in acquiring and curating.

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Thursday, February 24, 2022


Watch the Performance

Watch the book launch of The Queer Nuyorican: Racialized Sexualities and Aesthetics in Loisaida live on HemiTV, starting at 6 PM (EST). Available on all platforms and devices.

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