It’s been a few months, but I wanted to add these very special (to me) interviews that took place this past summer 2021. The first was with Matt and Stephane (thank you also to Ian, Alex & Shannon) who produce World Wide Wave out of Australia. The show “aims to promote awareness of international LGBT […]

Ooh, sabbatical is REAL. Kinda. The volume I co-edited with drea brown – TEACHING BLACK: THE CRAFT OF TEACHING ON BLACK LIFE AND LITERATURE (University of Pittsburgh Press)  – is expected to come out in November 2021!!! To learn more about this project, check out our social media (@teachingblk, facebook: Teaching Black). Order your advanced […]

Yesterday, we did it, we created “Sanctuary”, a performance. I am so grateful to each of the artists, the tech crew, the production crew, my students, performance witnesses, museum staff and my director, D’Lo. This was a powerful and deeply moving event. Today, I am sitting with the joy and profound reverberations produced by this […]

Sanctuary, A Performance: Get a ticket now! Sanctuary is a live-streamed event of combined live and virtual performance exploring women/queer people of color’s collective experiences of seeking refuge from persecution under the ongoing violence of colonization. Sanctuary is a collaboration between Ana-Maurine Lara, lead artist, and collaborating artists Akiko Hatakeyama, Rosamond S. King and Courtney […]

I wanted to share this interview that I had with the New Books in Anthropology podcast, put together and directed by Reighan Gillam. Thank you Dr. Gillam, for this wonderful opportunity to speak about Streetwalking: LGBTQ Lives and Protest in the Dominican Republic and Queer Freedom: Black Sovereignty. https://newbooksnetwork.com/streetwalking And here is a write up […]

I just had the most incredible, beautiful and loving book launch ever. Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Women and Society and the Women of Color Faculty group at the University of Oregon, series editors Yolanda Martinez-San Miguel and Vanessa K. Valdez. You can watch the launch here: CSWS Presents WOC Books in […]

I just wrote a small creative non-fiction piece, published in the Bellingham Review, titled “Rice and Sancocho“. Thanks to Jai Dulani for the invitation to submit! I was also just awarded a Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art Black Lives Matter Award!! The grant money is going to the new iteration of Sanctuary, set to go […]

My first academic books were just published. The academy tends to privilege “firsts,” but really, these two books came into fruition simultaneously. Queer Freedom: Black Sovereignty (SUNY Press – Afro Latinx Futures Series, 2020) Streetwalking: LGBTQ Lives and Protest in the Dominican Republic (Rutgers University Press – Critical Caribbean Studies Series, 2020) In Afro-Indigenous traditions […]

On Tuesday, I celebrate 30 years as a gay person who has stepped “into the life” (Joseph Beam) and I celebrate 45 years around the equinox Sun. This longevity is worth celebrating, worth holding up and reflecting on. On the eve of 30/45, I celebrate the publication of my two VERY GAY books: Queer Freedom: […]

Here is a presentation I prepared today, June 9, 2020 for the University of Oregon Mills Center, and at the request of Latinx students on campus (at the bottom, under resources). There are many resources within the pdf itself, but I also wanted to add other resources that keep appearing, so I will add them […]