Hello and sorry for crosspost
With this letter I ask for your help. This year I make a team with a few friends to raise the resources we need to present our works at the LASA (Latin American Studies Association) Congress (San Juan, May 27 to 30, http://lasa.international.pitt.edu/). Eventually, we decided go for a Crowdfunding and name the project "Cuban Minority Voices to Borinquen".
The list of our presentations at LASA 2015: 1. Dmitri Prieto-Samsónov, Jenny Cruz-Cabrera & Regina Cano, "(Post)Soviet Diasporas in Cuba" 2. Norge Espinosa-Mendoza, "Reinaldo Arenas: The Hallucinating Return" 3. Yasmín Silvia Portales-Machado, "In Search of Estraven III: Homophobia, Feminism & (Homo)Sexualities in 21st Century Cuban Science Fiction"
The money is for paying the visas, transportation, meals and accommodation related to LASA 2015. Our budget is about $1000 per capita. Visa=$160, plane tickets=$697, meals=$120, housing=$75.
In short, we need almost 5 000 U$D. We set up the Crowdfunding in: https://www.tilt.com/campaigns/cuban-minority-voices-to-borinquen.
I´m not asking a big donation from you, this is precisely the opposite: We ask a small amount each time to as many people as possible. 10 U$D will be great, 25 U$D? Amazing!
Oh! No matter what you can give -or not-, please remember to share this link with colleagues you think may be interested in the researches we will develop with the LASA´s debates, or simply to other people with a preference for marginal voices.
Yours (literally)
Yasmín S. Portales Machado -------------------------------------- Marxista, Feminista y Bloguera
Twitter: @nimlothdecuba Facebook http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=663817529 Mi blog: http://yasminsilvia.blogspot.com/
Parte de Proyecto Arcoiris Colectivo LGBT de Cuba, anticapitalista e independiente http://proyectoarcoiris.cubava.cu/
Parte de Observatorio Crítico de Cuba ¡A la izquierda, pero por la izquierda! http://luchatuyucataino.cubava.cu/
"El feminismo ha puesto en evidencia, mejor que ninguna otra corriente de pensamiento, tanto la arbitrariedad del psicoanálisis como la insuficiencia del marxismo, es decir, ha cuestionado los dos grandes modelos totalizadores del siglo XX." Carlo Frabetti