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.
With the dark shadow of a second Trump administration on the horizon, the LMC spends the hour with Karma Chavez to discuss the whirlwind of anti-LGBTQ legislation that will impact public health, education, workplace discrimination, even family separation.
Karma Chavez is an Associate Professor at the University of Texas at Austin and author of Queer Migration Politics: Activist Rhetoric and Coalitional Possibilities.
o begin Pride Month, the LMC speaks with Nicola Chavez and Roberto Zapata from the LGBTQ rights group Amate de El Salvador to discuss the challenges faced by the community under the authoritarian government of president Nayib Bukele during the continued state of exception.
The Latino Media Collective is a grassroots Latino public-affairs program that airs on Pacifica station WPFW 89.3fm on Fridays @ 1pm EST in Washington DC.