{"id":21976,"date":"2015-01-01T09:00:45","date_gmt":"2015-01-01T17:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/?p=21976"},"modified":"2021-01-13T09:45:09","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T17:45:09","slug":"cuban-science-fiction-scholar-yasmin-s-portales-machado-to-speak-at-csws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/cuban-science-fiction-scholar-yasmin-s-portales-machado-to-speak-at-csws\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuban science fiction scholar Yasm\u00edn S. Portales Machado to speak at CSWS"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jane Grant Conference Room
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\n1408 University St.
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\"Yasmin<\/a>

Yasmin Silvia Portales Machado<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cIn Search of Estraven III: Homophobia, Feminism & (Homo)Sexualities in Cuban Science Fiction of the 21st Century\u201d<\/h4>\n

A science fiction scholar and gay rights activist, Yasm\u00edn S. Portales Machado is a freelance journalist for cubaliteraria.cu and havanatimes.org. She is the coordinator in Cuba of the \u201cAnticapitalism and Emergent Sociability\u201d Work Group of the Latin American Council for Social Sciences and founder of the Cuban Digital Humanities Network. Her blog is: http:\/\/yasminsilvia.blogspot.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Abstract:<\/strong> Searching for Estraven. Homophobia, feminism and (homo) sexualities in Cuban science fiction of XXI century\u00a0 \/\u00a0 Yasm\u00edn S. Portales Machado, GT AC&SE de CLACSO<\/p>\n

This is a feminist epistemological exercise in Cuban science fiction: I study the logics of subordination between characters of different genders and sexual orientation in the more recent books of Cuban scy fy. The review includes fourteen titles published in Cuba by seven writers; all of them began the writing career after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the end of XX century according to Hobsbawm (1998) and are now basics names for the contemporary Cuban scy fy landscape. The stories are dated from 1991 to 2012. This it is not a chronological study, but a thematic study: the authors are grouped according to the way they express different visions about gender and sexuality: patriarchal, feminist and queers. Books and authors included are: Vladimir Hern\u00e1ndez Pac\u00edn, \u201cHipernova\u201d; Elaine Vilar Madruga, \u201cAl L\u00edmite de Los Olivos\u201d, \u201cPromesas de La Tierra Rota\u201d and \u201cSalom\u00e9\u201d; Sigrid Victoria Due\u00f1as, \u201cCiudad En Red\u201d; Anabel Enr\u00edquez Pi\u00f1eiro, \u201cNada que Declarar\u201d; Erick Mota, \u201cBajo presi\u00f3n\u201d y \u201cAlgunos recuerdos que valen la pena\u201d; Michel Encinosa Fu, \u201cNi\u00f1os de ne\u00f3n\u201d, \u201cDioses de ne\u00f3n\u201d y \u201cVeredas\u201d; Yoss, \u201cPluma de le\u00f3n\u201d, \u201cSuper-extra-grande\u201d and \u201cCondonautas.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read more about Yasm\u00edn S. Portales Machado in this 2014 story: http:\/\/mic.com\/articles\/92495\/how-cuba-s-gay-rights-activists-are-starting-a-revolution-with-kissing<\/p>\n

\u201cIn a socialist country where organizations must align with the state\u2019s official agenda, the kiss-in is a political provocation: \u2018to appropriate the streets, to normalize the rights of every person to be themselves, [in] broad daylight, is a political challenge in our country,\u2019 Afro-Cuban journalist, activist and independent blogger\u00a0Yasmin Silvia Portales Machado\u00a0said in an interview with\u00a0OnCuba\u00a0magazine.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jane Grant Conference Room 330 Hendricks Hall 1408 University St. printable flyer PDF \u201cIn Search of Estraven III: Homophobia, Feminism & (Homo)Sexualities in Cuban Science Fiction of the 21st Century\u201d A science fiction scholar and gay rights activist, Yasm\u00edn S.…<\/p>\n

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