MACRI Talk - In the Shadows of the Freeway: Growing Up Brown & Queer
Thu, Mar 23
|Virtual Event
Join MACRI for a virtual book talk with Dr. Lydia Otero, author of the memoir In the Shadows of the Freeway: Growing Up Brown & Queer.
Time & Location
Mar 23, 2023, 6:00 PM CDT – Mar 24, 2023, 6:00 PM CDT
Virtual Event
Guests
About the event
Join MACRI for a virtual book talk with Dr. Lydia Otero, author of the memoir In the Shadows of the Freeway: Growing Up Brown & Queer.
Our FREE virtual event will stream live on Facebook https://bit.ly/FB-MACRI & YouTube https://bit.ly/YT-MACRI at 6PM Central Time.
This MACRI Talk is sponsored by AARP Texas, gracias!
About the book
Raised in an adobe house built by their mother, the author takes readers to a mid-20th century barrio that existed on the social margins of Tucson, Arizona despite sitting a little more than a mile away from the central business district. Born in 1955, and nicknamed La Butch by their family, Lydia Otero knew they were queer the moment their consciousness had evolved enough to formulate thoughts.
In addition to growing up fighting assigned gender expectations, a new freeway greatly influenced formative aspects of Otero's childhood. The author witnessed how the steady expansion of Interstate…