The Work of Abjection in Nao Bustamante’s Work
Drawing from her recent book, Leticia Alvarado will reflect on the Bustamante’s performance of abject negotiations. Deploying queer tactics to highlight the uncontainable excesses that seep through the mechanisms for beautifying the Latina body as well as the rigid categorizations of proper normative minority identity, Alvarado will elaborate on Bustamante’s performative embrace of failure.