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California College of the Arts (SF)

October 14 - October 14, 2010

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1111 Eighth Street San Francisco, CA 94107
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Presented as part of CCA’s Graduate Studies Lecture Series For several decades Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano has critically examined cultural representations of Chicana/o queer sexualities, subjectivities, bodies, and desires. Her writings address a variety of media, from literature, visual art, performance, and theater to film and video. She is a professor in the Spanish and Portuguese Department at Stanford University. Her books include Feminism and the Honor Plays of Lope de Vega and The Wounded Heart: Writing on Cherríe Moraga; she also coedited Chicano Art: Resistance and Affirmation. Since 1994 she has been developing a digital research and teaching archive of Chicana artists. Yarbro-Bejarano was one of the organizers of “Feminicide = Sanctioned Murder: Gender, Race, and Violence in Global Context,” an international conference that took place in 2007 focusing on extreme gender violence in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, and Argentina. It brought together academics, writers, human rights lawyers, artists, and leading activists, including mothers of murdered and disappeared women. This lecture is part of the Chalsty Aesthetics and Philosophy Initiative, made possible by a grant from the Chalsty Foundation. It is cosponsored by the CCA Wattis Institute, the President’s Diversity Steering Group, and the Chalsty Foundation.