Dr. Galvan reconceives the legacy of Gloria Anzaldúa, who is well-known for her challenge of white feminism in This Bridge Called My Back and creation of new subject positions for Chicana women in Borderlands / La Frontera including
her theorization of mestiza consciousness. This event examines Anzaldúa
as a visual queer theorist and shows how drawing was an important part
of her theorizing across her career. It focuses on how she illustrated
these concepts when she gave public talks about her scholarship. It
discusses how her drawings of mestiza consciousness radiated
intersectionality avant la lettre and welcomed a diverse
grouping of other individuals into community with her. This event
connects to part of Dr. Galvan’s book, In Visible Archives: Queer and Feminist Visual Culture in the 1980s,
which analyzes how visual culture provided a vital space for women
artists to theorize and visualize their own bodies and sexualities.
Margaret Galvan is Assistant Professor of Visual
Rhetoric in the Department of English at the University of Florida. Her
archivally-informed research examines how visual culture operates within
social movements and includes a first book, In Visible Archives: Queer and Feminist Visual Culture in the 1980s,
University of Minnesota Press. In 2021-2022, she was in residence at
the Stanford Humanities Center as the Distinguished Junior External
Fellow researching a second book about how communities of LGBTQ
cartoonists innovated comics through grassroots formats.
Co-sponsored by the UIS Diversity Center and the UIS Women’s Center
When: Wed, Mar 6 2024, 6
- 7:30pm
Location: Brookens Auditorium
