M Myrta Leslie Santana
Biographic Data
| ID | 2450200 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Myrta Leslie Santana |
| GIVEN NAMES | M Myrta Leslie |
| FAMILY NAME | Santana |
| SIGNATURE | SANTANA M M L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California San Diego |
| ORCID | 0009-0000-8503-4004 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
A Global Outlook on LGBTI Social (ex)inclusion through 2030
Researching Cuban Drag, or Queer Diasporic Ethnography and Ethnomusicology
In this article, I narrate the experience of doing queer diasporic ethnography on Cuban drag and consider how this methodological approach intervenes in ongoing conversations in ethnomusicology. I locate queer diasporic ethnography within a history of writing by Black and Latinx feminist and queer anthropologists, and I discuss how queer diasporic ethnography might engage ethnomusicologists’ understandings of power and positionality, gender and s…
Transformista, Travesti, Transgénero
This essay considers the stories of Blaccucini and Ángel Daniel, two Black transgender drag performers from Cuba, and dwells on the relationship they imagine between their work as performers and their subjectivities as trans people. The author situates these narratives within queer Cuban and Caribbean studies, noticing the ways they push back against renderings of gender and sexuality as inherently distinct categories. Instead, for these artist-t…
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Transformista, Travesti, Transgénero
This essay considers the stories of Blaccucini and Ángel Daniel, two Black transgender drag performers from Cuba, and dwells on the relationship they imagine between their work as performers and their subjectivities as trans people. The author situates these narratives within queer Cuban and Caribbean studies, noticing the ways they push back against renderings of gender and sexuality as inherently distinct categories. Instead, for these artist-t…
A Global Outlook on LGBTI Social (ex)inclusion through 2030
Researching Cuban Drag, or Queer Diasporic Ethnography and Ethnomusicology
In this article, I narrate the experience of doing queer diasporic ethnography on Cuban drag and consider how this methodological approach intervenes in ongoing conversations in ethnomusicology. I locate queer diasporic ethnography within a history of writing by Black and Latinx feminist and queer anthropologists, and I discuss how queer diasporic ethnography might engage ethnomusicologists’ understandings of power and positionality, gender and s…
Queer (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Colonialism (1 work) · Cuban History and Society (1 work) · Epistemology (1 work) · Futures contract (1 work) · Gender Studies (1 work) · Gender Studies (1 work)