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About Isabel Machado
Isabel Machado is a cultural historian whose work often crosses national and disciplinary boundaries. She specializes in the fields of Gender & Sexuality and Celebration Studies, and is particularly interested in Carnivals and drag competitions. Her forthcoming monograph, "Carnival in Alabama: Marked Bodies and Invented Traditions in Mobile" investigates how historically marginalized groups of people used Mardi Gras to negotiate their space and place in Mobile, Alabama (USA). For the ongoing oral history project, Queens of the South, she is interviewing performers who defy gender normativity in different parts of the globe. She is also co-editor of the Journal of Festive Studies.Isabel Machado is a cultural historian whose work often crosses national and disciplinary boundaries.
NBN Episodes hosted by Isabel:
January 11, 2024
The Bodies of Others
The Bodies of Others: Drag Dances and Their Afterlives (University of Michigan Press, 2019) covers four decades of drag dances, exploring the politics…
September 20, 2023
Male Femininities
Innovative essays that explore how men perform femininity and what femininity looks like without women.What counts as “male femininity”? Is it simply …
September 12, 2023
Drag
Drag: A British History (University of California Press, 2023) is a groundbreaking study of the sustained popularity and changing forms of male drag p…
June 9, 2023
Critical Brass
Critical Brass: Street Carnival and Musical Activism in Olympic Rio de Janeiro (Wesleyan University Press, 2022) tells the story of neofanfarrismo, an…
January 14, 2023
Sovereign Joy
Sovereign Joy Afro-Mexican Kings and Queens, 1539-1640 (Cambridge University Press, 2022) explores the performance of festive black kings and queens a…
December 19, 2022
Belfast Punk and the Troubles: an Oral History
Belfast Punk and the Troubles: an Oral History (Manchester UP, 2022) is an oral history of Belfast’s punk scene from the mid-1970s to the mid-80s that…
September 13, 2022
Transmovimientos
Edited by Ellie D. Hernandez, Eddy Francisco Alvarez Jr., and Magda García, Transmovimientos: Latinx Queer Migrations, Bodies, and Space (University o…
June 23, 2022
New Directions in Queer Oral History
New Directions in Queer Oral History, edited by Amy Tooth Murphy, Clare Summerskill, and Emma Vickers (Routledge, 2022) is a comprehensive internatio…
June 15, 2022
Queer Carnival
Queer Carnival: Festivals and Mardi Gras in the South (NYU Press, 2022) reveals the importance of citywide celebrations like Mardi Gras and Fiesta for…
May 6, 2022
Choreographing in Color
Investigating the development of Filipino popular dance and performance since the late 20th century, Choreographing in Color: Filipinos, Hip-Hop, and …
April 13, 2022
Queering Drag
Drawing on a rich body of archival and ethnographic research, Queering Drag: Redefining the Discourse of Gender-Bending (Indian UP, 2020) illuminates …
March 28, 2022
Sissy Insurgencies
Sissy Insurgencies: A Racial Anatomy of Unfit Manliness (Duke University Press, 2022) by Marlon B. Ross focuses on the figure of the sissy in order to…
January 24, 2022
A Sojourn in Paradise
Jack Robinson made his name as a much-sought-after fashion and celebrity photographer during the 1960s and early 1970s, and his work is well documente…
November 15, 2021
Prismatic Performances
At his 1994 inauguration, South African president Nelson Mandela announced the "Rainbow Nation, at peace with itself and the world." This national rai…
October 27, 2021
Doing Gender in Events
Exploring the relationship between gender and events, Doing Gender in Events: Feminist Perspectives in Critical Event Studies (Routledge, 2021) delive…
October 18, 2021
Queer Nightlife
The mass shooting at a queer Latin Night in Orlando in July 2016 sparked a public conversation about access to pleasure and selfhood within conditions…
September 3, 2021
In Between Subjects
In Between Subjects: A Critical Genealogy of Queer Performance (Routledge, 2021) is a study of the connected ideas of "queer" and "gender performance"…
August 19, 2021
Disturbing Spirits
Disturbing Spirits: Mental Illness, Trauma, and Treatment in Modern Syria and Lebanon by Beverly A. Tsacoyianis (University of Notre Dame Press, 2021)…
August 16, 2021
Translocas
Translocas: The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance (U Michigan Press, 2021) focuses on drag and transgender performance and activism …
July 6, 2021
Out of Time
Between 2009 and 2014, an anti-homosexuality law circulating in the Ugandan parliament came to be the focus of a global conversation about queer right…
May 12, 2021
Ganhadores
Um retrato original da Bahia no século XIX, num livro cheio de movimento e vozes, sobretudo da gente negra. Em Ganhadores: A Greve Negra de 1857 na Ba…
April 21, 2021
Sadomasochism and the BDSM Community in the United States
Sadomasochism and the BDSM Community in the United States: Kinky People Unite (Routledge, 2021) chronicles the development of sadomasochistic sexualit…
March 17, 2021
After the Dance, the Drums Are Heavy
After the Dance, the Drums Are Heavy: Carnival, Politics, and Musical Engagement in Haiti (Oxford University Press, 2020) is a study of carnival, poli…
September 17, 2020
Public Performances
Public Performances: Studies in the Carnivalesque and Ritualesque (University Press of Colorado) offers a deep and wide-ranging exploration of relatio…