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Summer Kim Lee will wrestle with the British goth singer Siouxsie Sioux’s Orientalist performance. Iván A. Ramos will consider the Latina/o following of the British rock star Morrissey. Following introductions to their individual research, Lee and Ramos will engage in conversation about the political stakes and methodological questions that arise when considering the sonic bounds and intimate bonds of racialized publics.

Image Credit: "Sandy & Siouxsie" (2007) by Shizu Saldmando.

Summer Kim Lee received her PhD in Performance Studies at New York University. Her research focuses on the invisibility and illegibility of Asian American women in queer, feminist discourse as productive for creating forms of political critique wary of the limitations of representable, stable identities. She has published in the Journal of Popular Music Studies and from 2013-2015, served as the Managing Editor of Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory. Iván Ramos is a UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Ethnic Studies at UC Riverside.  He received his PhD in Performance Studies with a Designated Emphasis in Women, Gender, and Sexuality from UC Berkeley. Ramos’ broader research investigates the links and slippages between transnational Latina/o aesthetics in relationship to the everydayness of contemporary and historical violence.  His writing appears in Arara: Art and Architecture of the Americans, Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory, Studies in Gender and Sexuality, and Ayotzinapa: An Anthology.