The TAPS Graduate Students host Mellon Fellow Mario A. Gómez Zamora for the May First Friday.

ABOUT THE LECTURE | Ways of Knowing bridges queerness, performance, dance, and indigeneity. Mario follows fiestas and ceremonies at different sites where P’urhépecha people live in Michoacán and the Midwest and Pacific Coast of the United States, and argues that queer P’urhépechas and non-gender-conforming people are crucial to the continuity of the Indigenous traditions, its futurity, and that they have always been.

ABOUT MARIO A. GÓMEZ ZAMORA | Mario A. Gómez Zamora is the son of immigrants and a queer P’urhépecha scholar, dancer, poet, and educator originally from Michoacán, México. Currently, Mario is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Humanities Center and the Department of Theater and Performance Studies at Stanford University.