A VIDEO PLAYLIST FOR TRANSLOCAS

This is a video playlist to accompany Translocas: The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance by Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes. If you are interested in purchasing the book, you can use the discount code UMS21 for 30% off at https://www.press.umich.edu/11314788/translocas.

1. SYLVIA RIVERA

L020A Sylvia Rivera, “Y’all Better Quiet Down” Original Authorized Video, 1973 Gay Pride Rally NYC

https://youtu.be/Jb-JIOWUw1o

SYLVIA RIVERA TRANS MOVEMENT FOUNDER

https://youtu.be/ybnH0HB0lqc

2. WALTER MERCADO

Mucho Mucho Amor: The Legend of Walter Mercado | Official Trailer | Netflix

https://youtu.be/XEJqiucxyrs

3. ANTONIO PANTOJAS

Antonio Pantojas-Participación "Súper Sábados" (Puerto Rico)

https://youtu.be/Mc-QLfVekig

Antonio Pantojas y Raymond Arrieta-Parodia canción "Ahora, Ahora" de Yolandita Monge

https://youtu.be/YIYGdsz5_zo

4. NINA FLOWERS

#Logo #DragRace Meet Nina Flowers | RuPaul's Drag Race: The Lost Season Ru-Vealed

https://youtu.be/EDWvByTF20I

Shannel and Nina Flowers at Drama Drag LOCA

https://youtu.be/umqHVLl9lNI

Nina Flowers - Loca (Ranny vs. The Popstar Mix)

https://youtu.be/bgwY5C1mTG4

5. JORGE STEVEN LOPEZ MERCADO

:::JORGE STEVEN LOPEZ MERCADO::: (1990-2009) "A MESSAGE FOR YOU" /MENSAJE DE LOS QUE NO TE OLVIDAN

https://youtu.be/1WZmXTxeDPY

6. KEVIN FRET

Kevin Fret - Soy Así

https://youtu.be/H7-gSwvoo8M

Diferente - Mike Duran ft Kevin Fret ( Video Oficial )

https://youtu.be/K_CQrjLvDeA

Entrevista a Kevin Fret, el primer trapero abiertamente gay

https://youtu.be/RND9FzG-AJI

7. VILLANO ANTILLANO

Villano Antillano - No Confío (Trust Issues Remix) OFFICIAL VIDEO

https://youtu.be/ucceBsm7jFY

Villano Antillano - Pájara (Video Oficial)

https://youtu.be/ucrL1uIxWHU

Conoce La Historia de Villano Antillano | Rapetón News

https://youtu.be/rYmimJWaqJ4

8. ERIKA LOPEZ

Erika Lopez's "The Welfare Queen"

https://youtu.be/b9-bYaE9tsQ

9. HOLLY WOODLAWN

Holly Woodlawn Interview

https://youtu.be/U5wuwngAXGA

Holly Woodlawn on "The Joan Rivers Show," February 1993

https://youtu.be/je9_7Mjs4IA

Warhol film Trash (clip)

https://youtu.be/y_1haqFiFh4

10. MONICA BEVERLY HILLZ

Monica Beverly Hillz Vs Serena ChaCha - Only Girl (In The World) (Lipsync)

https://youtu.be/m8XmJC9TqHk

Monica Beverly Hillz Gets Personal in New SocialScope Interview

https://youtu.be/_8g0kh43q7I

Jade Sotomayor and Monica Beverly Hillz - Beef Empanadas - Cooking with Drag Queens

https://youtu.be/9d0cPcUqve4

11. FREDDIE MERCADO

Freddie Mercado por Ozzie Forbes

https://youtu.be/blAJffKiFHU

Espejo las Caras de Freddie

https://youtu.be/Mrmgk7RCF2k

12. JAVIER CARDONA

You Don't Look Like... (1996, 2003)

https://hemisphericinstitute.org/en/hidvl-collections/item/1148-jcardona-look-like.html

You don't look like-- [videorecording].

https://sites.dlib.nyu.edu/hidvl/4mw6m969

Canales Abiertos//Open Channels: Taxonomía of a Spicy Espécimen por Javier Cardona Otero

https://youtu.be/8txA25gEAlk

13. JORGE MERCED

El bolero fue mi ruina (2006)

https://hemisphericinstitute.org/en/hidvl-collections/item/1821-pregones-bolero.html

El bolero fue mi ruina [videorecording] = The bolero was my downfall.

Jorge B Merced, Rosalba Rolón, Desmar Guevara, Ricardo Pons and Pregones Theatre (New York, N.Y.)

https://sites.dlib.nyu.edu/hidvl/cvdnck1m

Jorge B. Merced, Associate Artistic Director of Pregones Theater Part 1

https://youtu.be/bVqosi_hzKc

Jorge B. Merced, Associate Artistic Director of Pregones Theater Part 2

https://youtu.be/FR4sx4pKus8

Jorge B. Merced, Associate Artistic Director of Pregones Theater Part 3

https://youtu.be/F_dNy6DR0ys

14. LADY CATIRIA

Lady Catiria Continental 1995

https://youtu.be/YVegrZss7mA

Lady Catiria / Paris Frantz / Continental 1996

https://youtu.be/oDI8IABz1pI

HERE.... FOR YOU...…. LADY CATIRIA.

https://youtu.be/yc6RH8jPVY8

LADY CATIRIA. LLAMARADA. NYC.

https://youtu.be/sWnCpRQD07k

15. BARBRA HERR

Barbra Herr@Ms. Continental 2012

https://youtu.be/3MAWjmSdKfw

Portrait of a Lady: Story of Barbra Herr

https://youtu.be/Ohm4ahY6jDc

16. LOLA VON MIRAMAR (with FAUSTO FERNOS and MARC FELION)

Cooking with Drag Queens: How to Make Tostones

https://youtu.be/TA05Vl3FoV0

Cooking w/ Drag Queens - Lola Von Miramar - Arroz Con Pollo (Rice with Chicken)

https://youtu.be/kLRLNQ_Iffg

17. MALA MALA

Mala Mala

https://youtu.be/tlr8EL-2rPY

Larry La Fountain-Stokes Presents “The Drag of Poverty”

April 12, 2015 Nadia Caldwell Campus Life, News 

Article published in The Ledger:

http://thetacomaledger.com/larry-la-fountain-stokes-presents-the-drag-of-poverty/

PHOTO BY Michelle De La Cruz

Over 50 faculty, staff, and students gathered in Jane Russell Commons on April 8 to hear Larry La Fountain-Stokes’ presentation “The Drag of Poverty: Erika Lopez, Holly Woodlawn, Monica Beverly Hillz, Welfare Queens.” Support for the event came from the Arts and Lecture Committee, Division of Culture, Arts, and Communication, American Studies Faculty, Diversity Resource Center and Staff of the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences. The talk was the first of a two-part tour with a presentation at the UWT on the 8th, followed by a presentation at the Seattle campus on the 9th.

La Fountain-Stokes’ talk is part of a book project entitled Translocas: Trans Diasporic Puerto Rican Drag where he focuses in on transvestism and performance while asserting that drag has the ability to question gender and sexuality and explore things like ethnicity, poverty, and race.

La Fountain-Stokes, author, performer, and Associate Professor at the University of Michigan, focuses his research on drag performance, gender, race, ethnicity, and sexuality in cultural studies, Latin American literature, and performance studies. In the talk, attendees had the opportunity to explore sexualization of Latino/a poverty in the United States. Through examining performances of drag queens in film and television, La Fountain-Stokes walked the audience through what he calls “The Drag of Poverty” and framed a new meaning for “welfare queen.”

La Fountain-Stokes posed questions like, “what does it mean to consider drag as a political act that has the power, not simply to challenge binary gender norms, but also to question other social formations and power structures in society?” and “what does it mean to see drag as something more than mere entertainment?”

The presentation highlighted Erika Lopez’s The Welfare Queen, Holly Woodlawn in Andy Warhol’s film Trash, and Monica Beverly Hillz commonly known from the reality television show RuPaul’s Drag Race. La Fountain-Stokes used these performances to demonstrate how queer Latino/a performers from the working-class, in his words, “have been forced to negotiate challenging life and work environments and to recreate or invent themselves in some cases appropriating and flipping the stigmatized category of welfare queen…historically, marginally, minoritarian subjects such as diasporic Puerto Rican drag queens have been largely excluded from government services or assistance such as welfare or gainful employment…this leaves limited employment opportunities.” He goes on to correlate the spaces these performers find themselves in with limited employment opportunities being the exact places in which we see the aforementioned performances.

The talk concluded with a few questions posed by staff, students, and faculty members for elaboration on how the performers in such different mediums connected and more details on the compensation for the performers on the reality show RuPaul’s Drag Race. The event ended with a reception and a spread of cookies and cake.

Students received the talk well. Student Nathan Pelland said after the talk, “Sometimes I find myself questioning whether Drag Race is an alright representation of queer communities in media…it is very problematic, sometimes it’s transphobic and there are certainly racist attitudes within it…I was very enthralled in this lecture today for hitting many of those points and concerns yet also noting its significance to the gay community.”

American Studies (AMST) faculty such as Ed Chamberlin, who gave the introduction and closed the event, and Dr.Ingrid Walker were glad to have brought La Fountain-Stokes to UWT. The AMST faculty agreed in regard to La Fountain-Stokes’ works, saying that it embodied or brought together the issues covered in the AMST major. With the revamp of the AMST program, events like this shine a light on the major and represent  some of the core concepts that are covered or examined in the American Studies major.

Today at the University of Washington, Tacoma!

Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes

Speaking today on The Drag of Poverty: Erika Lopez, Holly Woodlawn, Monica Beverly Hills, Welfare Queens. 4:15pm, Milgard Assembly Room, Univ. of Washington, Tacoma