https://www.gutierrezoscar.com/about-me daily 0.75 2022-02-10 https://www.gutierrezoscar.com/home daily 1.0 2022-02-10 https://www.gutierrezoscar.com/curriculumv daily 0.75 2022-02-10 https://www.gutierrezoscar.com/projects daily 0.75 2022-02-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea89bca794ae03d3298f6ec/519fb379-ef89-41fc-9605-20066999164f/Screen+Shot+2021-05-31+at+3.47.34+PM.png Projects - Chapter 1 Geographies of Odor: (Un)mapping the Fluidity of Racialized Queer Excess A multi sensory mapping of Southeast Los Angeles that describes the ways queer youth navigate the fluid geographies of industrial space. By reading through examples such as Mosquita y Mari (2012) and mapping projects like Queering the Map, this chapter unearths a toxic entanglement in the midst of the disasters of racial capitalism. I propose geographies of odor as a mode through which we read beyond the limits of legality toward a disruptive trespassing practice of space. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea89bca794ae03d3298f6ec/595d1fca-4093-4fb0-a8b7-35a0478d7080/Screen+Shot+2022-02-09+at+10.52.45+PM.png Projects - Chapter 2 Fighting for Life: Queer Youth Resistance and an Environmental Afterlife Through a series of interviews and archival research, this chapter focuses on the ways queer youth choose to become involved in environmental justice organizing. My conversation in this chapter is framed by understanding how queer identities have shaped, ruptured and created new understandings of organizing in the community and how notions of ecological violence are reframed toward new possibilities of what I call, an environmental afterlife. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea89bca794ae03d3298f6ec/483563a3-b84c-4399-9c4b-d1c2e644c74a/lamontana2-Victories-next-to-Moved-a-Mountain-of-Rubble.jpg Projects - Chapter 3 Moving Mountains: Familiar Failure and the Ecology of Queer Latinx Kinship This chapter employs historical methods to uncover how U.S. imperialism was foundational to environmental degradation by promoting notions of white heterosexual nuclear family and the importance of industrial labor. I juxtapose this history by proposing that Latinx families in the early ‘90s created different notions of what family meant and queer kinship networks further contributed to a new way of understanding questions of relationality. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea89bca794ae03d3298f6ec/70ea3ca1-3691-4944-9679-cac50480c1bb/Screen+Shot+2022-02-10+at+2.17.35+PM.png Projects - Chapter 4 On the Impossibility of Environmental Justice This chapter argues that the concept of environmental justice, which is grounded in communities free from any form of ecological violence is inherently an impossibility. In other words, because environmental justice is rendered under the concept of justice--a category of the state relying on a colonial temporality and predicated on the death and exclusion of Black people, the framework, as I argue is a deadly negotiation. By reviewing case studies through non-profits and state agencies I offer a queer and abolotionist analysis toward a worldview through which we may have the opportunity to find different proximities toward freedom. https://www.gutierrezoscar.com/events daily 0.75 2022-02-10 https://www.gutierrezoscar.com/contact daily 0.75 2022-02-10