In the latest installment of the Undocumented & LGBTQ series, the LMC spends the hour with Malú Machuca Rose to discuss the unique challenges of Peru’s LGBTQ community and how the country’s civil war from generations ago still hinder the struggle for equal rights.
Malú Machuca Rose is a PhD Candidate in Performance Studies at Northwestern University.
James Early, the former Smithsonian Institution Assistant Secretary for Education and Public Service, joins the LMC to discuss the Trump administration’s attempts to rewrite history by taking over the Smithsonian Institute, the Kennedy Center, and the defunding of public libraries.
On this special episode merging fashion with politics, the LMC spends the hour with writer Edward Salazar Celis on the political history of Latinos wearing black from the Zoot suit Chicanos from the 1930s to the west coast Chicanas in the 90s and everything in between from a working-class point of view.
Edward Salazar Celis is a writer, cultural critic and educator, specializing in Latin(x) American arts, fashion and visual cultures.
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