In her work, Professor Bacigalupo shows how shamanic gendered discourses and practices (as they interact with more-than-humans) can be superb tools for transforming colonial and neocolonial structures of power-and for producing new logics and decolonizing epistemologies, methodologies, and theories in academia-because they challenge Western assumptions about the nature and organization of the world in myriad ways. Gender Bending as Power in Southern Chile - November 3 virtually on ZoomĪ virtual talk by Ana Mariella Bacigalupe, Professor of Anthopology at SUNY Buffalo. She recently wrote and starred in the play Qué locura enamorarme yo de ti (How Crazy to Fall in Love with You). She is the creator of several performances that she has staged with her family. She won Peru’s National Journalism Award for an investigative report on a case of gender violence. She was editor-in-chief of Marie Claire in Spain and now regularly publishes opinion columns in Eldiario.es, VICE, and the New York Times en Español, as well as a video column for lamula.pe. Her work has appeared in national and international anthologies and has been translated into English, Portuguese, Polish, French, and Italian. She is joined by panelists Leila Gomez, Dulce Adama, and Gabriela Rios. Her most recent book is Huaco Retrato (Huaco Portrait, 2021), which she will be talking about with us on November 8th. Her books include Sexographies, Nine Moons, Llamada Perdida (Missed Call), Dicen de Mí (What They Say about Me), and the book of poems Ejercicios para el Endurecimiento del Espíritu (Exercises for the Hardening of the Spirit). Gabriela Wiener is a Peruvian writer and journalist. Huaco Portrait: Gabriela Wiener Talks About Migration, Family, and Decolonial Desire - November 8 in Norlin Library, CBIS Room

Huaco retrato by Gabriela Wiener