Highlighting Diverse Collections Archive

Queer Nightlife centers queer and trans people of color who apprehend the risky medium of the night to explore, know, and stage their bodies, genders, and sexualities in the face of systemic and social negation.

M. Myrta Leslie Santana draws on years of embedded research within Cuban trans/queer communities to analyze how transformistas, or drag performers, understand their roles in the social transformation of the island.

This book follows queer South Asian men across national, regional, and urban borders into gay neighborhoods, nightclubs, bars, and house parties in Bangalore and Chicago.

Mercedes Liska investigates changes in tango dancing in Buenos Aires during the first decade of the twenty-first century and its relationship to contemporary social and cultural transformations.

Queer Dance challenges social norms and enacts queer coalition across the LGBTQ community. This work joins forces with feminist, anti-racist, and anti-colonial work to consider how bodies are forces of social change.

This book highlights the critical role that performance played in the development of Latina/o public culture in the United States during the 1990s and early 2000s.

This book showcases twelve individual artists and companies who are reclaiming traditional genres and building inclusive dance communities.