Book Talk: Vicente Carrillo — Feels Like Home: Queer Placemaking & the Politics of Belonging in the Gentrifying Barrio
Monday, April 27, 2026
3:00-4:00 p.m.
CHASS INTS 1109
In this talk Dr. Carrillo draws from queer-feminist psychoanalytic frameworks and affective geographies to examine how queer Latinx communities negotiate belonging in gentrifying Boyle Heights, East L.A. By focusing on how spatial and emotional attachments to place emerge, he uses case studies like emerging queer Latino bars, and Chicane/Latine cultural productions to map the tensions between belonging and displacement.
Dr. Vicente Carrillo is a President’s & Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of English at UC Riverside.
Sponsored by: Department of Ethnic Studies, Department of English, Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies
