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La Voz Spring 2020, El Instituto: Institute Of Latina/O, Caribbean, And Latin American Studies
La Voz Spring 2020, El Instituto: Institute Of Latina/O, Caribbean, And Latin American Studies
La Voz
In this issues:
- MA Student Randy Torres Awarded Mead Fellowship
- MA Student Spotlight: Victoria Almodovar
- Mark Overmyer-Velazquez to Publish Updated Translation
- Can Inclusive Programs Reduce Labor Market Discrimination?
- Exploring Mexico's Industrial Revolutions
- Anti-Haitian Stereotypes in Dominican Media
- Writing Puerto Rican History at UConn's Humanities Institute
- New State Course in African American, Latino, and Puerto Rican Studies
Acoso Visual: Staring Back At The State And Gender Conformity, Juan Luna
Acoso Visual: Staring Back At The State And Gender Conformity, Juan Luna
Honors Theses
A semi-autoethnographic piece that uses a radical transfeminist lens to interrogate hegemonic systems of gender and race in the Dominican Republic through the violence that Trans and Gender Nonconforming people face. While focusing on trans violence, this thesis explicitly turns its gaze away from Trans/Gender Nonconforming people and interrogates the state, cisnormativity, and gender conformity. This thesis explores how acoso visual (visual accosting) is a historically informed process that works to border trans/gender nonconformity out of the idea of Dominicanidad. Ultimately, this text reminds Trans/Gender Nonconforming individuals that they are not the reason for the transphobia that they experience, and …