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COMMUNITYRESEARCH TEACHING WRITING TALKS  EXPERIMENTALBodymemory lab



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Gendered Enclosures and Feminist Fugitivities in Latinx Los Angeles unpacks how places are constructed as geographies of filth, devalued through criminalization (labeled as gang territories, drug markets, or prostitution zones), used to justify police intervention and subsequent capital investment that displaces original residents. Using transdisciplinary methods such as ethnography, interviews, and archival research, 


This work emphasizes that cultural production within gentrifying landscapes refuses banishment by maintaining cultural memory, creating alternative economies of value, providing visual disruptions to whitewashing, and establishing forms of placemaking that refuse displacement.
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Spatial Disruptions at UCLA’s Thinking Gender Conference 2019