{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"University of Minnesota Press","title":"Navigating and challenging deep-seated racial injustices in the Midwest.","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/97747e66\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3670,"description":"Movidas are subtle yet strategic actions through which Latina/x artists forge solidarities, mobilize for justice, and reclaim space. In Place-Keepers, Jessica Lopez Lyman centers Latina/x women and gender nonconforming artists from Chicana/Mexicana, US Central American, and Caribbean backgrounds and examines how these artists respond to systemic oppression through public performances and behind-the-scenes negotiations with the state, nonprofits, and other institutions—establishing a crucial framework for understanding art as activism. Here, Lopez Lyman is joined in conversation with Kristie Soares and Karma Chaves. Access a transcript: https://share.transistor.fm/s/97747e66\n\nJessica Lopez Lyman is an interdisciplinary performance artist and Xicana feminist scholar, assistant professor in the Department of Chicano and Latino Studies at the University of Minnesota, and author of Place-Keepers: Latina/x Art, Performance, and Organizing in the Twin Cities.\n\nKristie Soares is associate professor of Women & Gender Studies and Co-Director of LGBTQ Studies at University of Colorado Boulder. Soares is author of Playful Protest: The Political Work of Joy in Latinx Media.\n\nKarma Chávez is Bobby and Sherri Patton Professor of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies and Chair of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies at The University of Texas at Austin. Chavez is author of The Borders of AIDS: Race, Quarantine, and Resistance; Palestine on the Air; and Queer Migration Politics: Activist Rhetoric and Coalitional Possibilities. \n\nEPISODE REFERENCES:\nLaurie Carlos\nMaría Isa Pérez-Vega\nStephanie Lee Batiste\nMethodology of the Oppressed / Chela Sandoval\n\n\nFEATURED ARTISTS in Place-Keepers:\nTeresa Ortiz\nGuadalupe Castillo (La Lupe)\nDeborah Ramos\nAdriana Rimpel (Lady Midnight)\nMaría Isa Pérez-Vega\nLorena Duarte\nOlivia Levins Holden\nMagdalena Kaluza\nRebekah Crisanta de Ybarra\nMaria Cristina Tavera\n\nNOTE: This podcast episode was recorded in December 2025. More recently, Jessica Lopez...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/fAwENHzmp9h_PaRnnj_lblPe4NxpUbbLPc46_lIefAU/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS84ZDM5/YzQwMzU5YTA2NTdh/MDAzOGFkZGNlNjk3/NTRjOC5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}