Orfalea Center Thematic Research Cluster Global Genders and Sexualities Queer Lives of Pandemic in Northeast India Article: “ Queer Lives of Pandemic in Northeast India,” in global-e (forthcoming article) Authors: Debanuj DasGupta and Kumam Davidson Description: As Covid continues to wreak havoc in the Global South, it is marginalized queer individuals who have been impacted […]Read More
Orfalea Center Thematic Research Cluster Global Genders and Sexualities Future Research Projects Global conversation of activists on HIV in Latin America and South & East Asia. Abstract: The conversation will aim to allow activists to form new networks, but also to vent and create communities that allow them to develop better tools and practices to […]Read More
Orfalea Center Thematic Research Cluster Global Genders and Sexualities Ongoing Graduate Student Individual Research – Miguel Fuentes Carreño Fuentes Carreño, Miguel. “Informe: Impacto Diferenciado ante la COVID 19 en la comunidad LGBTI+ en México”, Ciudad de México, COPRED/Yaaj, 2020 (will be published on February 27th). “Salud Materna en Yucatán”, GIRE, 2021 (will be published on […]Read More
Orfalea Center Thematic Research Cluster Global Genders and Sexualities Ongoing Faculty Individual Research – Debanuj DasGupta Debanuj DasGupta is drafting an article on COVID-19 and Queer Geopolitics to be submitted to Political Geography. (Final Submission due by 04/30/2021) DasGupta is collaborating with activists in Kolkata, Kathmandu and Dhaka about relief work during the pandemic and […]Read More
Orfalea Center Thematic Research Cluster Global Genders and Sexualities Ongoing Faculty Individual Research – Xiaorong Li Xiaorong Li: Publication Imperial Authority, Locality, and Gender: The Political Dynamics of Poetry Anthology Compilation during the Qing and Early Republican Era (1767-1919) Teaching Graduate Seminar: Gender & Expression in Pre-Modern Chinese Literature. Co-Director East Asia Center: Potential Collaborations […]Read More
Orfalea Center Thematic Research Cluster Global Genders and Sexualities Ongoing Faculty Individual Research – Raquel Pacheco Raquel Pacheco is drafting an article titled, “Contradictory Masculinities: Contradictory indigenous masculinities: on becoming despiertos in the neoliberal economic moment”. In Fall 2020, she taught Anthropology of Gender (ANTH 125) and The Plasticity of Biopolitics (ANTH 250RP). Back to […]Read More
Orfalea Center Thematic Research Cluster Global Genders and Sexualities Globalizing LGBTIQ+ activism during pandemic politics: A roundtable with MENA and Latin American activists on best practices during the COVID-19 pandemic The roundtable will bring together a South-South conversation on urgent topics identified by activists in MENA and Latin America. Among the topics discussed, we suggest: […]Read More
Orfalea Center Thematic Research Cluster The Anthropology of the State Course Description: This class investigates notions and ideas of “the state” through an ethnographic and anthropological approach. We pose the questions: What is the state? How can one think of the state: as an abstract reality, an institution, a process/mode of governance, or a cultural […]Read More
Orfalea Center Thematic Research Cluster Global Genders and Sexualities (Trans)nationalizing US Sexuality and Gender Studies: Trans/Queer activism in India and Mexico Miguel Fuentes Carreno, graduate studentDebanuj DasGupta (Faculty) A closed conversation between Indian and Mexican trans activists, along with faculty and grad students from UCSB, on their experiences before and during COVID-19. We aim to […]Read More
