Jessica Nydia Pabón-Colón
Performance Studies alum Jessica Nydia Pabón-Colón (Ph.D. '13) joined Cathy Hannabach on the Imagine Otherwise podcast to discuss how women graffiti writers perform feminism on the global stage.
Jessica Nydia Pabón-Colón is an assistant professor of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at SUNY New Paltz. She is an interdisciplinary Latina feminist performance studies scholar working at the intersections of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies; cultural studies; Black and Latinx studies; and performance studies.
She is the author of Graffiti Grrlz: Performing Feminism in the Hip Hop Diaspora (NYU Press, 2018), a transnational urban and digital ethnography that centers the experiences of over 100 women graffiti writers in 23 countries to demonstrate how feminism emerges through individual and collective performances of belonging within a heteropatriarchal subculture.
Jessica’s research fuels her arts-based community activism: she has curated gallery shows and coordinated public mural productions with graffiti grrlz; published opinion pieces in graffiti magazines such as The Infamous Magazine and on feminist websites such as Muslima; lectured at community events like Wall Therapy in Rochester, NY; moderated discussions including “Art in Public” at O+ Festival in Kingston, NY; and appeared on Radio Kingston to discuss feminist activism at the Women’s Marches and women and deviance broadly.