As an advisor for Queer as German Folk Liliana Macias was tasked with helping develop content and build local partnerships. Informed by her scholarly work on queer latinx performance, she was tasked with the creation of the Chicago component of the exhibit. The Chicago component highlights a variety of forgotten and key queer sites and spaces in the city of Chicago.
Biography
Liliana Macias is a program coordinator for the Chicago History Museum. She is also an adjunct lecturer for the Women’s and Gender Studies and Sociology department at Northeastern Illinois University. She has had the privilege of presenting her scholarly work on Chicago’s Queer Latinx communities in a variety of conferences. Liliana migrated to the United States from Mexico when she was 6 years old and grew up in the lower west side of Chicago. She is currently working on exploring the intersections between queerness, being undocumented, and feminism in the United States.
