‘Trans Plantations’ at Depaul
May 5, 2009
*Photo by Glenn Koetzner
The month of May at Depaul University is going to be jam packed with events by and for LGBTQ community, brought to us by The Office LGBTQA Student Services. I was working some retail this past weekend and I asked a woman wearing a Gay Depaul T-Shirt if she was attending any of the events. She said that she was and that everyone was excited about Trans Plantations, a one-woman play that “explores her lifelong struggle with cultural and sexual identity as a New York-born Puerto Rican uprooted from her Bronx barrio and transplanted to rural Connecticut at age 7.” I emailed actor Janis Astor del Valle for clarification — this particular work does not address trans identity. Instead it focuses on what it meant being a queer Latina in rural America and how that struggle has been shaped over the years.
Other events on the calendar focus on education and awareness about sensitivity, safety, legal issues, addiction and minority issues. Not bad for a catholic university! See the full calendar of events here.
