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Queer Studies Easter Symposium 2007
Photo Gallery
Day 6 (13 April 2007) |
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In
the
morning session,
Hazel
Gloria Davenport
(Coordinadora
de Diversidad Sexual.CENSIDA &
Presidenta
de Humana, Nación Trans) spoke about Transgendered
Realities: Politics, Justice and Representation in Mexico
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In continuation, Mohamed
Abdo Mahgoub (Department
of Anthropology Alexandria
University, Egypt.) spoke about the customary laws of Awlad
Ali tribes in the western desert of Egypt
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From the session Relationships: Ideologies and Cultural Identities
with Clary
Loisel (Department
of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures,
University
of Montana) talking about Utopía
gay by José Rafael Calva as a Queer Study of
Matrimony
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In continuation, Zach Blas
(Department of Fine Art
, University of California) answered the question What
is Queer Technology?
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In the afternoon session, Violence and Power in Same-Sex
Relationships, Humberto
Flores Dorantes
from the Faculty of
Psychology at the Universidad
Veracruzana spoke about violence in relationships of gay and homosexual
men.
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Paulina Martinez (Musas de Metal)
told us about violence in relationships of Lesbian women.
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Horacio Franco, world famous
Mexican flutist, sharing his perspectives on Textuality, Diversity and
Queer Culture
with conference delegates |
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The evening session in Café Tercera Llamada
started with a presentation by Paulina Martinez and Emilia
Torres of the book Acercándome a la Diversidad Sexual recently
published by their organisation "Musas de Metal - Gay Women's
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The book presentation was followed by our
second Round Table Discussion in Café Tercera Llamada: Gender &
Social Transformations, Spaces & Identities (I)
with the
participation of several prominent Mexican activists from many
fields: Enrique Adar (Diversum México), Rodolfo Vitela (UNAM/Alternativa),
Federico C. Ruenes Torres (Foro de Hombres Gay) Jorge Yañes López
(DIVERSA APN), Emilia Torres (Musas de Metal), Agustín
Villalpando (Grupo Palomilla Gay/Enkidu Magazine) Salvador Zavaleta
Ramirez (DIVERSA APN), Manuel Amador (Foro de Hombres Gay) and Paulina Martinez
(Musas de Metal)
Thereafter, Concepción Ortega (Universidad
de la Laguna, Tenerife) gave us an orientation about recent social
transformations in Spain in general and the Region of the Canary Islands
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Photos
from the Queer Studies Easter Symposium 2007
Day
1
Day
2
Day
3
Day
4
Conference
Cocktail and the Opening of the Conference Exhibition
Lesbarbie in Doce30
Day
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Day
7
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Los
Martes de Enkidu
Febrero 2007
