The Trouble with Unity

My March 7 talk at UC Berkeley, "Undocumented, Unafraid, and Unapologetic: DREAM Activism and the Queering of Democratic Citizenship," is online here. The description: "Dr. Cristina Beltrán looks at how DREAM activists, particularly queer
DREAM activists, use forms of new social media as a space of
confrontation, creativity, and self-assertion. By working to queer the
immigrants rights movement, Dr. Beltrán argues that DREAMers are putting
forward more complex and 'gothic' form of political membership that
challenge the more traditional, xenophilic logic of immigrant rights
that emphasizes simplistic and problematic conceptions of patriotism,
legality, and loyalty."