Jaime Shearn Coan

Jaime Shearn Coan is a writer and PhD Candidate in English at The Graduate Center, CUNY. He currently serves as a Mellon Digital Publics Fellow at The Center for the Humanities, where he partners with the CUNY Dance Initiative and JACK. His writing has appeared in publications including The Brooklyn Rail, Critical Correspondence, Drain Magazine, Jacket2, Movement Research Performance Journal, TDR: The Drama Review, and Women & Performance. Jaime is a co-editor of the 2016 Danspace Project catalogue Lost and Found: Dance, New York, HIV/AIDS, Then and Now and is the author of the poetry chapbook Turn it Over, published by Argos Books.

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Queer City (18/20)

Feeling the Vibration of the Periphery

A conversation with Alyssa Alpine, Maria Bauman, Cláudio Bueno, Pato Hebert, João Simões, and Kendra Sullivan, Hosted by Jaime Shearn Coan

Space and time, rhythms and vibrations: creating space for bodies to be together, particularly LGBTQI people of colour.