Biography
Dr. Marina Magloire is a Miami-based writer and scholar, and a member of Last Call Collective. Her writing has been published or is forthcoming in The Paris Review, The Boston Review, Scalawag Magazine, Harper’s Magazine, Harper’s Bazaar, and Public Books.
Research
In 2012, on the eve of the closing of New Orleans’ last lesbian bar, we began with a simple question: “Where have all the dyke bars gone?” Since then, Last Call has been a crucial part of the artistic landscape of New Orleans, functioning as a multiracial performance collective of queer artists, activists, and archivists. We have created multi-platform performances, podcasts, and events that document and interpret queer history in New Orleans and across the Gulf South, forging intergenerational connections between those who lived through the heyday of New Orleans’ lesbian bars in the 1970s and 1980s and a younger generation of queer and trans New Orleanians who have much at stake if that history is forgotten. Now, we are preparing for the publication of our first book based on our extensive oral history archive. During the Monroe Fellowship, we will commission queer artists living in the Gulf South to illustrate the book manuscript with original portraits of each of the 15 interviewees we plan to feature. The illustrators will be required to use the oral history archive and additional research to develop the portraits.
