Click here to view a video recording of this CLGS Latinx Roundtable Event!

We invite you to enjoy a video recording of our 3 December 2024 live and online event ¡Bomba Puertorriqueña!: Queer Theology Meets Caribbean Afrofuturism with the musical group Batey Tambó!

As the oldest genre of indigenous-Afro-Caribbean style of song and dance, Bomba represents a form of activism and resistance against political, racial, economic, patriarchal, and cultural hegemony in the island and beyond.

Drawing from its Afro-Caribbean roots, Bomba discursively reimagines traditional relationships between oppressor and oppressed by symbolically flipping the relationship between the dancer and the music (In Bomba, the dancer proposes the beat of the drum through musicalized movement). Herein lies the potential for a spiritual, queer, socio-political intervention.

In this event, we celebrated in word, music, and dance the historical and contemporary expressions of this genre and explored how spiritual/faith leaders can draw from this form of  “artivism” to promote social transformation.

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Our Facilitators 

Ish Ruiz (He/Him): Ruiz is Assistant Professor of Latinx & Queer Decolonial Theology at Pacific School of Religion and the Coordinator of the CLGS Latinx Roundtable. As a Puerto Rican, queer, Catholic theologian, his research interests intersect Latinx theology, queer theology, sexual ethics, human rights, Catholic theology, moral theology, education, and social justice.

Alexandra Rosado-Román (She/Her): Rosado-Román is Assistant Professor of Gender Studies and Caribbean Decolonial Ethics at Pacific School of Religion. She is a social ethicist whose research intersect Feminist decolonial theory, diaspora studies, and spirituality. A scholar activist, she is deeply committed to unraveling the intricate workings of colonial social constructs such as race, class, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, and citizenship – and their enduring impact on the lives of racialized women in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean.

 

 

 

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