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The Latinx Project
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Interdisciplinary Center for Arts and Culture at NYU. All about Latinx culture, creativity, scholarship & +

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New on Intervenxions—Afrofutur1st Garçon: From Material to Matter

“Tesourcefulness has been the backbone of [Afro’s] creative process and their secret weapon [within] the New York Ballroom scene.”

By Pamela Santana Oliveros

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November 11, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Writing Fashion explores the dynamic field of Latinx fashion through cultural studies and visual culture. Bringing together scholars and writers, it examines how fashion has been approached as a site of identity formation, resistance, and cultural expression.

📍Dec. 9 | 6-8 pm EST

RSVP 🔗 in bio
November 10, 2025 at 5:07 PM
The Latinx Project announces ‘Burning the Mask’ curated by Patricia Encarnación opening March 2026. ‘Burning the Mask’ puts the lens on practices that rebel against imposed identities—anchoring in ancestral memory, embodied authenticity, and radical love.

Learn more via link in bio.
November 5, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Yara Simón, Intervenxions Deputy Editor, shares acronym for key things to consider when pitching.
November 5, 2025 at 5:45 PM
The Latinx Project announces ‘Ya Mero (Almost there)’ featuring works by artist-in-residence Karla Diaz and curated by Mia Lopez. Read the press release announcing our spring shows to learn more.

RSVP for the opening on January 30 at the link in bio.
November 3, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Our November newsletter is out! Announcing out Spring 2026 exhibitions, upcoming events, opportunities, and more.

Full newsletter: mailchi.mp/6a5fdbbe9eb1...
November 3, 2025 at 2:17 PM
In honor of Día de Muertos, we are highlighting ‘Reposo y Recuerdo,’ an ofrenda by artist Laura Anderson Barbata at the Green-Wood Historic Chapel. Curated by Harry Weil, the ofrenda is open daily from 10am-5pm until 11/16 where visitors are encouraged to participate.
November 1, 2025 at 1:02 PM
New on Intervenxions—Preserving and Reimagining Cultural Memory

“While there are certainly moments of solitude, I … see my work as part of something much bigger—a collective effort to preserve and reimagine cultural memory.”

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October 31, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Join us for "Entre Nosotras Mismas: Interventions in Archival Practice from Archivo de la Memoria Trans'" by Melissa Aslo de la Torre (Librarian for Latin American, Caribbean, Spanish, and Portuguese Studies at Bobst Library). Lunch will be provided.

📍Wednesday, Nov. 12 | 12-1 pm EST

link in bio.
October 29, 2025 at 2:40 PM
We’ve been thrilled to welcome visitors to our fall exhibition Escenas— including middle school, high school, and university students. Joy has been a key theme emerging from the exhibition tours with schools and community organizations. Come see the show and speak with us!

Register + visit via 🔗
October 25, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Very excited to be presenting at this year’s @latinxprojnyu.bsky.social conference. Ready to listen and learn from incredible Latinx studies scholars 🙂‍↕️
October 10, 2025 at 2:05 PM
New on Intervenxions—The Salvadoran Speculative With Ruben Reyes Jr.

“Reyes Jr.’s debut novel [presents] the complexities of Salvadoran migration with speculative wonder.”

By Tommy Conners

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October 24, 2025 at 2:33 PM
The Graduate Student Working Group (GSWG) at TLP invites graduate students to submit to our second annual in-person symposium at New York University.

Deadline: Monday, December 1.

Read the full open call online. 🔗 in bio.
October 23, 2025 at 2:27 PM
We're thrilled to gather the seven photographers in the Escenas exhibition for tonight's online panel entitled "Photographers in Conversation: Vernacular Images."

Through 12/4, visit the exhibition at 20 Cooper Sq. Tues-Fri from 11am-5pm. Schedule your visit here: www.latinxproject.nyu.edu/escenas
October 22, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Join Alex Santana and Yara Simón, editors at Intervenxions and freelance writers, for this online workshop on how to pitch publications. This virtual discussion will cover how to write an effective pitch, find your niche, and target publications.

📍 Wednesday, Nov. 5 | 12:30 - 1:30 pm EST via Zoom
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
New on Intervenxions—Submerged in Spirit With Coco Villa

“Villa experiments using their body as a medium to explore human intimacy and African diasporic ancestral connections.”

By Kiara Cristina Ventura

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October 21, 2025 at 2:30 PM
New on Intervenxions—Henry Morales: Care as Citizenship

“Morales renders scenes from his travels in pastels and jewel tones, softened versions of the vibrant hues of the Indigenous Guatemalan textiles that he admires.”

By Liam Maher

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October 14, 2025 at 2:47 PM
In honor of Indigenous Peoples' Day, we are highlighting the ongoing efforts of the Esto'k Gna--the Carrizo/Comecrudo Tribe of the South Texas Rio Grande Delta--& local environmental justice groups to protect sacred lands & waters from erasure, destruction, & pollution.

📸: SOTXEJN & the Esto'k Gna.
October 13, 2025 at 1:13 PM
New on Intervenxions—Just Like Yesterday: The Young Lords at DePaul

‘Tengo Lincoln Park en mi corazón’ echoes “the cultural, visual, and material lineages of the YLO.”

By Lucas Gómez-Doyle

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October 10, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Please join us for an exciting online artist panel with the seven lens-based artists featured in our current exhibition Escenas.

📍 Wednesday, October 22 | 6:30 - 8 pm EST via Zoom

Please RSVP at the link in bio for access to the zoom.

www.eventbrite.com/e/1740098905...
October 8, 2025 at 9:23 PM
New on Intervenxions—Yvena Despagne’s Haitian Curatorial Perspective

“Yvena Despagne . . . has engaged in community art practices to establish a vision and standard for contemporary Haitian art within the diaspora.

By Dantaé Garee Elliott

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October 7, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Don't miss our conference next week Friday 10/10 9 am - 6 pm!
Register below:
www.eventbrite.com/e/1676660158...
Join us October 10 for an in-person conference, Aesthetics of Joy and Refuge, featuring twenty presentations by a range of scholars, researchers and cultural organizers selected via open call.

View the program and RSVP online. Please note that seating is first-come, first-served.
October 3, 2025 at 4:50 PM
New on Intervenxions—Post-fire Technologies: Elsa Muñoz’s Future Flowers

“Muñoz uses fire-following flowers as testimonies of how tied things are; how ecology, body, and spirit interlaces with one another.”

By John H. Guevara

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October 3, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Our October newsletter is here! Check out our upcoming conference, Escenas panel, Intervenxions workshop, and more.

Full newsletter: mailchi.mp/f8550dc79030...
October 1, 2025 at 1:36 PM
New on Intervenxions—7 Academic Books on Display at La Feria 2025

“As part of [La Feria], TLP will also showcase recent academic books on a range of topics, including activism, border politics, identity formation, and art.”

www.latinxproject.nyu.edu/intervenxion...
September 26, 2025 at 2:51 PM