Amanda Machado will read excerpts from essays and a book project that explore how sexuality and desire connects her to the women of her lineage. In this project, she explores both the lineage of non consent in her family, as well as lineages of pleasure, and the queer elements of all immigrant woman narratives when we think of queerness as an act of bodily autonomy, rather than only a sexual orientation.
These essays meditate on the question: How do you create a life you’ve never seen before, and how do you trust that it honors those before you?
Amanda is also leading a workshop on April 19th: Writing Immigrant Queerness