Research Paper On Nathhalie Encarnacion

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Nathalie Encarnacion (Boo Leanne) is a practicing multidisciplinary artist studying at Purchase College. As well as, an educator, curator, activist, and conceptual-mother addressing topics that question today’s political, social, cultural, and gender norms. Drawing from Marxist, feminist, and radical black theory, Nathalie’s work is driven by a synthesis of personal experiences relating to being a daughter of Dominican-Croatian immigrants as well as a paid domestic being in the present first world. Creating video collages, narratives, installations, and performances that derive from her fractured maternal queer-femme identity, Nathalie is constantly investigating the confusing capitalist structures of the world that demand critique through

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