Pavlovsky: «Aquí estoy tal como soy»

+ info: CCMA

«PAVLOVSKY» (2020), una producció d’Estudi Bárbara Granados en coproducció amb Televisió de Catalunya i TVE, amb la col·laboració de Pep Molina, Manel Pousa, Fundació Pare Manel, Lluís Coromina Isern, Josep Maria Ferrer Aris, El Tricicle, Mario Gas i Joan Matabosch.

Juliana Delgado Lopera, artista bogotana, inmigrante y activista lgbti en San Francisco

Entrevista radiofónica a Juliana Delgado Lopera: Cultura que ladra (Universidad Nacional de Colombia) 

Juliana Delgado Lopera es autora de Quiéreme (Nomadic Press 2017) y ¡Cuéntamelo! (Tía Lute 2017), una colección ilustrada bilingüe de historias orales de inmigrantes LGBT Latinx. Su novela Fiebre tropical, fue publicada en 2020 por la editorial The Feminist Press. Juliana ha recibido varias becas, residencias, premios y como gestora cultural fue directora ejecutiva de RADAR Productions, una extraña obra literaria sin fines de lucro también basada en San Francisco.

 

Sobre Fiebre tropical (su último libro):

+ info: Los Angeles Review of Books (Dan López)

WHEN I WAS around four or five, my family relocated from the New York metropolitan area to the sprawling suburban megalopolis enveloping the southeastern corner of Florida. I don’t remember much of my early life in the Northeast, but I never shook a preference for the dense urban landscapes of my early years, even as I grew to appreciate the sand dunes and swamps that define the Sunshine State. Like many young queers of my generation, I rarely felt completely at ease in my surroundings. A palpable sense that I differed in some abstract way from those around me was ever present. So was a longing to return “home.” These feelings governed nearly every interaction I had. Thus, to a large extent, they shaped who I am today. As an adult, I realize that queers (or reluctant Floridians) don’t hold a monopoly on feelings of alienation. (Who does feel completely at ease anywhere?) Still, being queer in south Florida was an inflection point for my early feelings of otherness and as such saturates the narratives of my youth.

 

Opening the Sports Closet. Media Coverage

+ info: Journal of Sports Media (Lori Dann y Tracy Everbach, 2016)

Dann, Lori and Tracy Everbach. «Opening the Sports Closet: Media Coverage of the Self-Outings of Jason Collins and Brittney Griner.» Journal of Sports Media, vol. 11 no. 1, 2016, p. 169-192. Project MUSEdoi:10.1353/jsm.2016.0003.

This textual-discourse analysis examines coverage of the coming-out revelations of two American professional athletes in major sports media. When Brittney Griner of the WNBA and Jason Collins of the NBA made their announcements within two weeks of each other in April 2013, sports media embraced both athletes by praising their courage and calling for tolerance. However, sports media treated Collins’s revelation as big news and Griner’s as routine. The sports world continues to cling to the idea that masculinity and heterosexuality are linked, in line with the concept of masculine hegemony. Because Griner defies societal constructions of femininity, she adheres to the stereotypical view that aggressive female athletes are “masculine.” The media discourse reflected these conceptual frameworks. Yet the positive media coverage in support of these gay athletes demonstrates that these constructions may be in flux.