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Dr. Kristie Soares is an Assistant Professor of Women & Gender Studies, and Co-Director of the LGBTQ Studies Certificate Program at the University of Colorado Boulder. 

On her website, she states that her teaching focuses on queer and performance methodologies. “I encourage students to ‘try out’ intellectual concepts using their bodies, through decolonial pedagogies such as Spoken Word Poetry and Theatre of the Oppressed.”

Additionally, her current book project, “Salsa Epistemology, engages with salsa — a music and dance tradition — to show how embodied playfulness figures as an integral part of queer activism in the Spanish Caribbean diaspora.”

Some of her featured publications include:

• “The Cuban Missile Crisis of White Masculinity: Tito Bonito and the Burlesque Butt.” The Routledge Companion to Gender, Sex and Pop Culture in Latin America. Routledge (2017) 
  • “but his sexuality and gender performance are queered by where he keeps his Cubanness—on his butt. He lifts the flag so that the audience can applaud his bare butt cheeks, which he gyrates enticingly before bending down to pick up just two props for his stage exit—his bright blue raft and the tiny American flag which he waves with a comic enthusiasm as he backs off of the stage, indicating the fragility of both U.S.-based and Cuban masculinities.”
• “Reflections on Anti-Racist Feminist Pedagogy & Organizing: This Bridge, 40 Years Later.” Forthcoming in a special issue of Feminist Studies. (2021)

Published — October 3, 2022