Cuauhtémoc Peranda

Cuauhtémoc Peranda, MFA (Mescalero Apache, Mexika-Chichimeca/Cano: cihuayiolo butch queen) is a sixth-year Critical Dance Studies PhD student at the University of California, Riverside. Their research focuses on the development of the House Ballroom Scene, in particular how, through radical praxes of love, queer, transgender and two-spirit Black peoples deployed the dance form of vogue (voguing/Performance) as transformational resilience via shade, and queering Indigenous knowledge reclamation. They walk and raise children as Father Don’Té Lauren of The Legendary House of Lauren, International. And, in their free time, they love to watch anime, Star Trek, and the Golden Girls—because dramatic friendship is a powerful and entertaining form of love.