Media and Events
LARB Radio Hour, Listen Here.
Eric Newman is joined by scholar and critic Juana María Rodríguez to discuss her latest book, Puta Life: Seeing Latinas, Working Sex. Moving between stories gleaned from archives, interviews, and Rodríguez's personal experience, Puta Life explores the proliferating and often incongruous meanings of the term "puta" as it circulates in Latinx identity and culture as a signifier of power and powerlessness, rebellion and revulsion, exaltation and degradation. In accounting for how the figure of the puta is socially produced through the regimes of race, gender, class, and the state, Rodríguez's moving stories of those living, struggling, and thriving on the margins ask us to reckon with the past, present, and future of sex work.
Queer Hispanisims Now
“Spectres of Puta Life,” Keynote Presentation
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
July 3-4, 2023
Juana María Rodríguez: Sex Work is a Queer Issue
“Sex workers have always been part of queer communities, and the issues they face — sexual regulation, stigmatization and hate-fueled violence — are core to the LGBTQ community.”
My body, your right? —The Recast @ Politico
“It is really something much deeper and more profound, which is your personal autonomy — the fact that you have a right to own and control your own body,” says Rodríguez. “So I’m seeing a cluster of issues come together that are really about this very fundamental desire.”
San Francisco Sex Worker Film and Arts Festival
A Visual History of Puta Life, a multi-media presentation
May 21, 2023 4:00pm Stage Werx Theater
Book Panel Discussion: Puta Life: Seeing Latinas, Working Sex
Thursday, May 4, 2023 5-6:30 pm, Comunidad Room, UC San Diego
With Panelists: Yetta Howard, Roy Pérez, Hentyle Yapp, Nguyen Tan Hoang
Writing Workshop with Juana María Rodríguez
Friday, May 5, 2023, 2-4 pm
Developing sustainable writing practices for graduate students and junior faculty.
Limited availability, registration required.
Sponsored by Literature, History, Ethnic Studies, Critical Gender Studies, Institute for Arts and Humanities, Chicanx and Latinx Studies
The Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity presents the Annual Sexual Representation Collection Lecture Series.
Juana María Rodríguez: “Representing Desire, Desiring Representation: The Amazing Past of Adela Vazquez”
February 2, 2023
Please join CLAGS, the Center for LGBTQ Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center, in honoring Dr. Juana María Rodríguez, our 31st annual Kessler Award recipient with opening presentations from Testimonial Speakers, Emma Pérez, Judith Butler, and Nicole Fleetwood. The David R. Kessler Award is given every year to a scholar and/ or activist who has produced a substantive body of work that has had a significant influence on the field of LGBTQ Studies.
Professor Juana María Rodríguez has been honored with the prestigious Berlin Prize by the American Academy in Berlin. While in residence as the John P. Birkelund Fellow in the Humanities, she will be completing her manuscript Puta Life which pairs visual portraits of Latinas who have worked in the sex industry with biographical and autobiographical accounts of their lives in order to explore the limits and possibilities of representation.
Berkeley Professor Juana María Rodríguez talks about her teaching and research for the Latinx Research Center and shares her best advice for students.
‘A dangerous moment:’ Professor Juana María Rodríguez talks sex work’s history and the internet’s future in the Daily Cal
Faculty Profile: Juana María Rodríguez on sexuality in public discourse
Juana María Rodríguez is a member of the Haas Institute's LGBT Cluster and a professor of Gender and Women's Studies at University of California, Berkeley. Here, she discusses the "politics of respectability" in the gay marriage movement and how sexual identity politics influence discourse surrounding public policy decisions.
Professor Juana María Rodríguez, from UC Berkeley's Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, suggests that scholars in the field of Queer Studies would benefit from a turn to statistics as a lens into bisexuality and other identities.
Profesora de Berkeley Juana María Rodríguez habla con Paula Jiménez España sobre la homonormatividad, el racismo de los EEUU, y las realidades sexuales, culturales, y afectivas de Latinxs cuir.
Latinx: The Engendering of the Spanish Language
The word Latinx has gained popularity as some people try to change the Spanish language to make it more inclusive.