The conference led by Iki Yos Piña Narváez Funes will take place on Thursday 10 March at 12:00 at the Espai Cultural in the Faculty of Language Studies, Translation and Communication.
- Organised by: Research Group GIUV2013-144: HYBRIDA
- With the collaboration of: Master’s Degree in Language and Literature Research (MILL) / Diversitats / CIPIS / Forthem
- Coordinated and presented by: Domingo Pujante (UV)
Research Group GIUV2013-144 HYBRIDA (Cultural Hybridisations and Migrant Identities) is excited to announce for the recovery of presentiality in academic and cultural activities with a new series of conferences in 2022 called RESISTANCE/S.
For this first issue, we are pleased to welcome Iki Yos Piña Narváez Funes, who will give a lecture entitled ‘Embodied narratives of southern transvestites. Non-cis compliant literature’ that counts with the collaboration of the Initiative for Equality in Diversity (Diversitats). This discussion is part of the actions promoted by the Office of the Vice-Dean for Culture, Equality, Inclusive Policies and Sustainability (CIPIS) as part of the activities organised for 8M. It is offered as complementary training for students of the Master’s Degree in Research in Languages and Literatures (MILL). The activity is supported by the Forthem Diversity and Migration Lab and the Department of French and Italian.
In this critical reflection activity on heteronormative colonial ideology, open to the entire university community, Iki Yos Piña will show how, as an anti-racist activist and a person of African descent, diasporic and transborder, writing is a painful act of resistance, of fugitivity and escape from the white supremacist and cisgender prison regime. As an artist, performer and sociologist with extensive experience in popular anti-colonial education, artistic actions with racialised communities and subaltern practices within Ayllu (a collaborative group of artistic-political research and action formed by racialised migrant agents, sexual and gender dissidents from the excolonies), they will encourage discussion in order to move through the opacity of transvestite writing, gender and sexual dissidents from the ex-colonies through an analysis of different personal narratives, colonial wounds and bodies resistant to cis-heterosexual dictatorship. Writing thereby becomes a weapon of transvestite vengeance, a living technology for the production of memory, a non-cis-compliant archive.
They have published several texts in collective volumes, among which stand out: “No soy queer soy negrx” (in No existe sexo sin racialización, 2017); “Este cuerpx otrx” (in Inflexión marica. Escrituras del descalabro gay en América Latina, 2018); No son 50 son 500 años de resistencia. 10 años de migrantes transgresorxs (2019).
