UF Gaytor Drag Race
Event Start Date: October 18, 2018 7:00 PM
Event End Date: October 18, 2018 9:00 PM
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UF Gaytor Drag Race
October 18 | 7 pm
Rion Ballroom, Reitz Union
The UF Gaytor Drag Race is a drag show competition featuring Malayka SN. Students that participated in either of Malayka SN's drag performance workshops will be able to participate in the drag show.
Malayka SN graduated from the School of Fine Arts of the Federal University of Bahia. She is a performer and currently develops research and works related to Drag Queen performativity, with emphasis on the aesthetics of monstrosity and its powerful reverberations when manifested in popular environments, bars, and the streets. As a graduate student in visual arts, she thinks of artistic education in a decolonial way and brings to her productions questions and thoughts that involve the dissident doing under a triad of identities, body, and space. They promote, in the Bahian “soteropolitana” scene, a performance night called "The Third Strangest of the World” in which Malayka SN integrates the Afrobapho and Monxtra House collectives into a night of performance. She draws on Afrofuturism and builds makeup and clothing based on body art.
Malayka SN will also give a guest lecture on October 19 from 2–4 pm in the Reitz Union, the room will be announced in the coming days.
Sponsors:
Center for Latin American Studies
UF LGBTQ Affairs