13th Annual Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Lecture in Gender & Sexuality Studies: A Lover’s Discourse—Scenes from a Puta Life

Combining deconstructed memoir with autotheoretical reflections on the erotic, this presentation engages the tropes of queer quotidian practices that constitute a sexual life.

Juana María Rodríguez is a cultural critic who writes about sexual cultures, racial politics, and the many tangled expressions of Latina identity. A Professor of Ethnic Studies and Performance Studies at UC Berkeley, she is the author of Puta Life: Seeing Latinas, Working Sex (Duke UP 2023); Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures, and Other Latina Longings (NYU Press 2014); and Queer Latinidad: Identity Practices, Discursive Spaces (NYU Press, 2003). In 2023, Dr. Rodríguez was honored by The Center for Gay and Lesbian Studies’ with the prestigious Kessler Award, in recognition of her lifelong contributions to the field of LGBT Studies.