{"id":1858,"date":"2025-05-06T12:55:39","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T19:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ethnicstudies.ucr.edu\/?p=1858"},"modified":"2025-05-06T12:55:39","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T19:55:39","slug":"colloquium-the-desirable-conduit-cinematic-fantasies-of-latinx-sexuality-and-labor-by-richard-t-rodriguez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ethnicstudies.ucr.edu\/colloquium-the-desirable-conduit-cinematic-fantasies-of-latinx-sexuality-and-labor-by-richard-t-rodriguez\/","title":{"rendered":"Colloquium: &#8220;The Desirable Conduit: Cinematic Fantasies of Latinx Sexuality and Labor&#8221; by Richard T. Rodr\u00edguez"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Join the UCR Department of Ethnic Studies for our colloquium speaker series:<\/h3>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;The Desirable Conduit: Cinematic Fantasies of Latinx Sexuality and Labor&#8221;<\/h1>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">By Richard T. Rodr\u00edguez<\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Monday, March 12, 2025<br \/>\n1:00-2:00 p.m.<br \/>\nINTN 3023<\/h3>\n<blockquote><p>Drawn from my book in progress, <em>The Desirable Conduit: Cinematic Fantasies of Latinx Sexuality and Labor<\/em>, this talk focuses on John Butler\u2019s 2018 dramedy <em>Papi Chulo<\/em>. Concerned with the simultaneous demand for Latino male sexuality and labor in contemporary queer cinema, focusing on what I identify as \u201cbad cinema\u201d helps glean insight in representational spaces to assess the social, sexual, economic, and psychic currencies afforded to and by Latino male sexuality.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ethnicstudies.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/rodriguez-headshot-198x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1860\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ethnicstudies.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/rodriguez-headshot-198x300.png 198w, https:\/\/ethnicstudies.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/rodriguez-headshot.png 315w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/td>\n<td><strong>Dr. Richard T. Rodr\u00edguez<\/strong> is Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside. He is the author of <em>Next of Kin: The Family in Chicano\/a Cultural Politics<\/em> and <em>A Kiss Across the Ocean: Transatlantic Intimacies of British Post-Punk and<br \/>\nU.S. Latinidad<\/em>, both published by Duke University Press and finishing a book of poems titled <em>Exemplars &#038; Accomplices<\/em>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join the UCR Department of Ethnic Studies for our colloquium speaker series: &#8220;The Desirable Conduit: Cinematic Fantasies of Latinx Sexuality and Labor&#8221; By Richard T. Rodr\u00edguez Monday, March 12, 2025 1:00-2:00 p.m. INTN 3023 Drawn from my book in progress, The Desirable Conduit: Cinematic Fantasies of Latinx Sexuality and Labor, this talk focuses on John [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1861,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[52,51,58],"class_list":["post-1858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","tag-colloquium","tag-events","tag-latinx-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethnicstudies.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethnicstudies.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethnicstudies.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethnicstudies.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethnicstudies.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1858"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ethnicstudies.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1862,"href":"https:\/\/ethnicstudies.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1858\/revisions\/1862"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethnicstudies.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethnicstudies.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethnicstudies.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethnicstudies.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}