Minnesota Movement Strategies: Jessica Lopez Lyman in conversation with Leigh-Anna Hidalgo

Webinar featuring Jessica Lopez Lyman, Assistant professor in the Department of Chicano and Latino Studies at the University of Minnesota, and Leigh-Anna Hidalgo, Assistant Professor of Ethnicity, Race, and Migration at Yale University.

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Jessica Lopez Lyman, Ph.D. is an interdisciplinary performance artist and Xicana feminist scholar interested in how Indigenous and People of Color create alternative spaces to heal and imagine new worlds. She received her Ph.D. in Chicana and Chicano Studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Jessica has published poetry and scholarship in Chicana/Latina Studies Journal, Label Me Latina/o, and Praxis: Gender and Cultural Critiques. Her manuscript Midwest Mujeres: Chicana/Latina Art and Performance explores racialized and gendered geographies of urban Minnesota.

Jessica’s second project focuses on climate justice. She built La Luchadora, a mobile screen printing cart, and prints political posters with communities across the state. She currently serves on the Academia Cesar Chavez Board of Directors and is the Board Chair of Serpentina Arts. Jessica is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chicano and Latino Studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.

More about Professor Lopez Lyman's book can be found here: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517920036/place-keepers/ 

Leigh-Anna Hidalgo is Assistant Professor of Ethnicity, Race, and Migration. She received her PhD in Chicana/o and Central American Studies from University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). She is an interdisciplinary scholar whose scholarship integrates ethnographic methods, digital humanities, and Latinx geographies in analyzing contemporary urban labor struggles and resistance.

Her forthcoming book, Abolitionist Marketplaces (under contract with Duke University Press), is based on a seven-year visual ethnography with the leaders of the Los Angeles Street Vending Campaign (LASVC). This book puts forward a new theoretical framework for analyzing how informal workers living under legal forms of violence center radical consciousness, self-care, and community-care to collectively organize and transform the urban spaces and city policies where they live and work.

In addition, Hidalgo has an ongoing digital humanities project with the LASVC that draws on a visual research method she developed called augmented fotonovelas (photo-based comics) that utilizes augmented reality (AR) to merge ethnographic data with photography, audio, and video imagery so that multiple publics can “see” and “hear” aggrieved communities. Articles from these projects have recently been published in the Journal of Latino Studies and Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture.