In this week’s incredible episode, we got the opportunity to speak to Migueltzinta Solís about his article Embodying the postcolonial perverse: mestizXXX sadomasochist performance methodologies (2021). In this episode we discuss consent, queer and trans methdologies, perversity, creative practice, land relations and more!  

Migueltzinta Solís is a trans Chicanx interdisciplinary artist, writer, educator, and Tarot practitioner. A creator of immersive site-specific experiences, his creative practice blends performance, video, installation, painting, and textile. Migueltzinta writes across multiple genres and forms, working towards a counter-institutional poetics of knowledge mobilization. Theme parks, amateur porn, Indigenous futurities, colonial imaginaries, queer materialities, and (un)belonging have been recurring themes. Migueltzinta holds an MFA in Art and a PhD in Cultural, Social and Political Thought from the University of Lethbridge/Iniskim in Treaty 7, traditional Blackfoot territory. 

Sources and Media 

You kind find all source material discussed in the episode here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pdAnRjpraEtM_WQDOWfbifk7bmIkeAXiXOSik7CSbIo/edit?usp=sharing  

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Outro: Lori Beauty, Coma Studios