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A new volume of the Frankel Institute Annual is now available online! I had the great honor of participating in the last Frankel Fellowship cohort, which focused on Jewish, Trans, and Queer Studies. Thanks to the amazing colleagues I worked with that year, I wrote a paper that will soon be published, as well as
“Every year on March 24, when Argentina commemorates the National Day of Memory for Truth and Justice, human rights organizations protest in front of Congress and the Pink House, the two central government buildings in Argentina. During these demonstrations young LGBT people hold signs demanding the recognition of the 30,400 disappeared people, an unexpected and marvelous legacy of the liberal, controversial, democratic, and empathetic work of an American rabbi who prayed with his legs.”
Red Rabbi Turns Pink: Marshall Meyer’s Influence on the Debate over Four Hundred Disappeared LGBT People in Argentina – AJS Perspectives / Winter 2024
About Marce Butierrez
Marce Joan Butierrez is a scholar whose research encompasses anthropology, journalism and history. In 2024, she was employed as a Research Fellow at the Frankel Institute of Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. She is currently the Chair of the Sexualities Studies Section at the Latin American Studies Association. As a journalist she was a regular contributor to the digital publications Moléculas Malucas and LatFem. She was also a columnist for the newspaper Página/12.
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