Poetic Operations: a conversation with micha cárdenas and Susan Stryker

Thursday, October 28, 2021 | 5:00 PM PDT
Presented by We Are The Voices and the Mills College Trans Studies Speaker Series.

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Color photos of micha cárdenas and Susan Stryker, set obver a blue flield. micha's chin lenght hair falls by their face as they look off to the, wearring a dark shirt, red cardigan, red lipstick and a gold necklace. Susan is dressed in black pants, shirt and blazer, seated the look out of frame her hand resting near her chin. Photos courtesy of the authors. Design by Joshua Zuniga.

micha cárdenas, author of Poetic Operations: Trans of Color Art in Digital Media (forthcoming from Duke University Press), and Susan Stryker will discuss cárdenas’s new book and trans of color poetics.

Bio

micha cárdenas, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Performance, Play & Design, and Critical Race & Ethnic Studies, at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she directs the Critical Realities Studio. Her book Poetic Operations, forthcoming from Duke University Press, proposes algorithmic analysis as a method for developing a trans of color poetics. cárdenas’s co-authored books The Transreal: Political Aesthetics of Crossing Realities (2012) and Trans Desire / Affective Cyborgs (2010) were published by Atropos Press.
michacardenas.org

We Are The Voices is a Mellon Foundation Higher Learning funded project linking Mills College students and faculty with poets and scholars working in Oakland and beyond.

The Mills College Trans Studies Speakers Series, hosted by Emmy-Award winner Susan Stryker, Barbara Lee Distinguished Visiting Professor in Women's Leadership, offers a regular public forum for exploring transgender issues with some of today's leading thinkers, artists, and activists.

Questions? Email TransSpeakerSeries@mills.edu.