Featuring: AGONZA, Clarisa Carubin, Marleny Luna, Marta Martínez, Erin L. McCutcheon, Susana de los Heros, Pablo Youngs

This panel is an invitation to examine the presence of Latinx art, languages, cultures, and experiences in our world today. The call “¡presente!” is rooted in Latin American and Latinx histories of resistance. As performance studies scholar Diana Taylor has written, “as much an act, a word, and an attitude, ¡presente! can be understood as a war cry in the face of nullification.” We invoke ¡presente! here as a way to consider how Latinx cultural creators have worked to make themselves and their communities visible, how they have confronted stigmas attached to their identities and forms of expression to resignify them as skills and strengths, and how we might better see and understand the ways in which Latinx culture is, and has always been, present. 

Join us via Zoom:  https://uri-edu.zoom.us/j/94994649693