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Johan Mijail

Johan Mijail Johan Mijail

Johan Mijail (Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, 1990) Writer and performer. Catinga Editions leader. He studied journalism. In 2011 he published the illustrated poetry book Metafiction and participated in the film Sister of the Lewis Forever Collective in the city of Berlin, Germany. In 2014 he published The Caribbean Beggars and in 2016 together with Jorge Díaz of the University Collective of Sexual Dissidence (CUDS) Inflamed by rhetoric. Promiscuous writings for a techno-decoloniality, both by Desbordes Publishing House. He has shown his performative work in the United States, Uruguay, Chile, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Germany and Colombia, with a scriptural and visual work that invites a transfeminist and decolonial imaginary. The Migrant Scholarship (2015) of the National Museum of Fine Arts of Chile and the TEOR/éTica Catalyst Scholarship have been awarded to him in 2020 and in 2016 he participated in the 10th Meeting of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics “ex-centric: dissidents, sovereignties , performance (University of Chile − New York University). He has been part of the anthologies Living There Ventana Abierta Publishing House (Chile), Fag inflection. Scriptures of the gay disaster in Latin America (Spain), Sexual affections and dissidence jota-cola-mariconas in Abya Yala (Mexico) and Without going through Go. Contemporary Dominican Narrative, compiled by Rita Indiana (Mexico). Recently he participated in the group exhibitions "All tones of Rage" at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Castilla y León (Spain) and "Colirio" at the Cultural Center of Spain in Santo Domingo. In 2018 he published The Books of the Broken Woman Anti-racist Manifesto. Scriptures for an immigrant biography through the Chilean publishing house, in 2020 the fanzine "Santo Domingo is Burning" by Catinga Editions, and in 2021 his first novel CHAPEO, by the Mexican publishing house Elefanta Editorial.

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