2026-2027: Black Cuerpas: Race, Body Politics & Culture

How do race, sex, gender, and body politics shape the histories and lived experiences of Boricuas? What happens when we put race and Blackness at the center of a field of study that has, for too long, championed color-blindness and racial democracy to avoid questions of racism, complicity, and erasure?

2026-2027 Community Micro-Grant Recipients:

• La Colindancia: El Gandul y Tras Talleres Agua, Sol y Sereno from Santurce, Puerto Rico
• Cartografías afrofeministas: memorias y luchas de mujeres negras en América Latina Asociación de Investigadores Afrolatinoamericanos/as y del Caribe (AINALC) from Buenos Aires, Argentina
• Imágenes Ancestrales Colectivo Ilé from San Juan, Puerto Rico
• Desde FURIA: Educación Legal Comunitaria desde la Abogacía Participativa Firmes, Unidos y Resilientes con la Abogacía (FURIA) Inc. from San Juan, Puerto Rico
• Reflections Between the Tide / Reflexiones entre la marea Imna Arroyo from New London, Connecticut
• Norwood Community Library’s Nuyorican Reading Series Norwood Community Library from The Bronx, New York
• Bomba - Ocupando Espacio Pal’ Pueblo Collective from Austin, Texas
• The Sanctuary Studio: Healing, Identity & Music for Youth in Chicago Panas en Chicago from Chicago, Illinois
• The Legacy of Cleo Silvers, the Young Lord and Black Panther Revolutionary Stephanie Alvarado from Brooklyn, New York
• Barrio No se Borra: Archivo Vivo de Jardines, Memoria y Saberes Barriales Taller Lumpen from Mayagüez, Puerto Rico
• Sazón for the Soul: A Boricua Diaspora Learning Series We Spirit Project: Empowering Realities (“W.S.P.E.R”) from New York, New York
• La Voz Que Soy / The Voice I Am Dr. Zuly E. Inirio from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania