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SUMMARY:Partner Event: Bajo el Lino
DESCRIPTION:I am pleased to present Bajo el Lino: The Guayabera\, Colonial Gender Systems\, and the Decolonial Possibilities of Dress\, my senior thesis project\, realized as a one-night exhibition.\n\nDeveloped in collaboration with Seventh House Gallery and Julia de Burgos Bookstore at Taller Puertorriqueño\, this project examines the guayabera as both a material object and a historical archive. The garment is approached as a site through which colonial structures—particularly those of race\, gender\, and national identity—are inscribed\, embodied\, and reproduced.\n\nThrough processes of deconstruction and reconstruction\, including the alteration of inherited silhouettes and the incorporation of embroidered texts and symbols of resistance\, the work positions the guayabera as both critical inquiry and embodied praxis. In doing so\, it proposes dress as a medium through which colonial logics may be materially unsettled and reconfigured toward more expansive and enduring forms of individual and collective expression.\n\nAdmission is free. Proceeds from the event and participating vendors will support Sylvia Rivera Law Project\, which provides legal services and advocacy for trans\, queer\, and gender-nonconforming communities in New York City.\n\nMay 4\, 2026\, 6:00–10:00 PM\n35 Meadow Street\, Brooklyn\, NY 11206\n\n—–\n\nMe complace presentar Bajo el Lino: La guayabera\, los sistemas coloniales de género y las posibilidades decoloniales del vestir\, mi proyecto de tesis de licenciatura\, realizado como una exposición de una sola noche.\n\nDesarrollado en colaboración con Seventh House Gallery y la Julia de Burgos Bookstore de Taller Puertorriqueño\, este proyecto examina la guayabera tanto como objeto material como archivo histórico. La prenda se aborda como un espacio donde las estructuras coloniales—particularmente aquellas relacionadas con la raza\, el género y la identidad nacional—se inscriben\, se encarnan y se reproducen.\n\nA través de procesos de deconstrucción y reconstrucción\, que incluyen la alteración de siluetas heredadas y la incorporación de textos y símbolos de resistencia bordados\, la obra sitúa la guayabera como un ejercicio de investigación crítica y praxis encarnada. De este modo\, propone el vestir como un medio a través del cual las lógicas coloniales pueden ser materialmente desestabilizadas y reconfiguradas hacia formas más amplias y duraderas de expresión individual y colectiva.\n\nLa entrada es gratuita. Los fondos recaudados durante el evento y por los vendedores participantes apoyarán al Sylvia Rivera Law Project\, que brinda servicios legales y defensa a comunidades trans\, queer y de género no conforme en la ciudad de Nueva York.\n\n4 de mayo de 2026\, 6:00–10:00 PM\n35 Meadow Street\, Brooklyn\, NY 11206
URL:https://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/event/bajo-el-lino/
LOCATION:Seven House Gallery\, 35 Meadow St\, Brooklyn\, CA\, 11206\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Events
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SUMMARY:A Diasporic Classroom: Teaching with Stories\, Archives\, and Culture
DESCRIPTION:Join a one-day educator institute exploring diasporic histories and identities through panels and workshops that engage with primary sources \n\n\n\nJoin us for a full-day educator institute presented by NYPL’s Center for Educators and Schools in partnership with CENTRO (The Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College). \n\n\n\nThis gathering invites educators to explore how diasporic histories\, identities\, and cultural expression can shape classroom practice. Through panels\, interactive sessions\, and hands-on workshops\, participants will engage with archives\, primary sources\, literature\, music\, and creative publishing practices that illuminate diasporic experiences across Latin America and beyond\, with several sessions drawing on Puerto Rican case studies. \n\n\n\nTogether we will consider how migration\, memory\, language\, and culture shape the experiences of students and communities—and how educators can bring these perspectives into the classroom. \n\n\n\nParticipants will leave with practical strategies\, classroom-ready resources\, and connections to NYPL and CENTRO collections\, staff\, and educational programs. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRSVP NOW
URL:https://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/event/a-diasporic-classroom/
LOCATION:Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library\, 455 5th Avenue\, New York\, New York\, 10016\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conference
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SUMMARY:Cafecito con... Steve Howell - Cold War Puerto Rico: Anti-Communism in Washington’s Caribbean Colony
DESCRIPTION:Join author Steve Howell and Professor Sandy Placido as we explore Howell’s latest book\, Cold War Puerto Rico: Anti-Communism in Washington’s Caribbean Colony\, a gripping history of FBI surveillance\, political repression\, and the fight for Puerto Rican independence. \n\n\n\nIn Cold War Puerto Rico\, Steve Howell examines how J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI targeted Puerto Rican communists as part of an offensive against pro-independence parties and activists generally. Howell’s US-born father\, who fell afoul of Hoover for producing radical cartoons while working in San Juan in the 1940s\, remained on the FBI’s watch list long after exiling himself in Britain. His close friends\, the Puerto Rican author César Andreu Iglesias and Jane Speed de Andreu\, were meanwhile arrested and imprisoned three times during the 1950s. Drawing on a wealth of new sources\, including interviews and FBI files\, Howell tells their stories along with those of other activists who battled indictment in 1954 under the Smith Act\, challenged the jurisdiction of the House Un-American Activities Committee in San Juan in 1959\, and revived the Puerto Rican independence movement in the 1960s\, despite the FBI deploying the covert tactics of COINTELPRO against them. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRSVP for this event here!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPhotograph belongs to Nico Andreu. Book cover design by Adam B Bohannon.
URL:https://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/event/cafecito-con-steve-howell-cold-war-puerto-rico-anti-communism-in-washingtons-caribbean-colony/
LOCATION:CENTRO en El Barrio\, 2180 3rd Ave\, New York\, New York\, 10065
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