Fashion, Queer Visibility, & Fabulosity

Please join us for a conversation with Madison Moore and Alejandro Rodriguez, aka, Lady Quesa’Dilla for a conversation about Fashion, Queer Visibility, and Fabulosity.

Madison Moore, Ph.D. (American Studies, Yale), is an artist- scholar, DJ and assistant professor of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies at Virginia commonwealth university, and most recently a guest artist in the Yale school of drama. Moore is the author of “Fabulous: The Rise of the Beautiful Eccentric” (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018), a cultural analysis of fabulousness as a radical aesthetic practice that marginalized people use to transform pain and struggle into opulence. He lectures and DJs internationally

Alejandro Rodriguez aka Lady Quesa’Dilla  —  is a native Tejan@ from the El Paso and Ciudad Juárez border. Their work is at the intersection of cultural identity, drag, and community. “The Brown Queen,” an autobiographical solo performance about growing up queer in the southwest, premiered at HERE Arts Center in the spring of 2010. Most recent solo performances include “My Tia Lupe” and “The Faggot in the Pink House”. Lady Quesa’Dilla is a former Miss Coney Island Queen of Drag.  Lady Quesa holds a BA in Theater from Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts, and a MA in Performance Studies from Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, where he studied under José Esteban Muñoz.

*Recommended reading: Fabulous: The Rise of the Beautiful Eccentric