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Gender and Women's Studies Colloquium

“Sugar, Shame, and Love: Reimagining Diabetic Latinidades”

Event Details

Date
Monday, September 17, 2018
Time
4 p.m.
Location
Description
Julie Avril Minich, Assistant Professor of English, University of Texas at Austin
This talk engages with disability theory in order to examine engagements with diabetes in works by contemporary Latinx writers and artists. Diabetic Latinx art responds to an urgent health crisis affecting Latinx communities throughout the United States; for instance, diagnosis rates among U.S. whites were reported at 7.4% in 2017, compared to 12.1% for Latinx populations. For more, click on link below.
Cost
Free and open to the public.

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