Miliann Kang is associate professor in Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where she is also affiliated faculty in Sociology and Asian/Asian American Studies. She situates this work within the current drive to pathologize, denigrate and deport immigrant bodies, and discusses how greater attention to embodied processes can inform organizing campaigns to resist this anti-immigrant backlash.
In this talk, Kang explores new theoretical dimensions of body labor, such as body rules (drawing on Arlie Hochschild’s concept of “feeling rules” in emotional labor), the manicuring of “docile bodies” (building on Foucault’s work on disciplinary technologies of the body) and dynamics of embodied assimilation and embodied resistance. In her book, The Managed Hand: Race, Gender and the Body in Beauty Service Work (University of California Press, 2010), Miliann Kang examined the dynamics of “body labor” in intimate bodily and emotional contact between women of different racial and immigrant statuses in Asian-owned nail salons. Nailing the Immigrant Body: The Manicure as Embodied Labor and Resistance JOIN the faculty and affiliated faculty of Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies for the first presentation of our Many of the RiverFest performers will tell their personal coming out stories and answer questions candidly in the Youth Tent.įor more information or to purchase tickets, go to: The festival also includes a Youth Tent, a safe and welcoming space for young people ages 12- 22, with workshops addressing their needs and interests, as well as activities like the Graffiti Wall Art Project. Other performers include legendary women’s music icon Alix Dobkin, Comedian Amy Tee, MAOR, Sister Funk, M3cedes Diaz, Sara Grace, Loco Ninja, Who da Funk It, and more. Pop diva Crystal Waters is the headline performer. The Rainbow RiverFest combines music, performances, art, games, a youth tent, educational workshops, demonstrations and the Zen Zone, a healing place for body, mind and spirit.
Rainbow Riverfest: An All-Day Queer Music and Art FestivalĬo-sponsored by the Stonewall Center. 1) Rainbow Riverfest: An All-Day Queer Music and Art Festival 11am-7pm Saturday 9/24/11 Holyoke, MAĢ) Nailing the Immigrant Body: The Manicure as Embodied Labor and Resistance (A Talk By Professor Miliann Kang) 12-1:30pm Wednesday 9/28/11 Bartlett 316
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