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...Judith Rodríguez Abstract This article reads the affective charge of ethnonationalism and antiblackness in Puerto Rican poetics and performance. Moving from the “legible” affect in Afro–Puerto Rican feminist poet Julia de Burgos's ethnonational poetry to the “illegible” affect experienced on stage...

...Rocío Zambrana Abstract In July 2019, almost two weeks of protest led to the ousting of Puerto Rico's Governor Ricardo “Ricky” Rosselló. The diversity and creativity of the protests were nationally and internationally celebrated. Asambleas de pueblo , people's assemblies, continued political...

...Rocío Zambrana Abstract The essays translated in this cluster explore the work of debt, blame, and responsibility in the continuation of and resistance to colonial life in contemporary Puerto Rico. In the colony of Puerto Rico, debt represents the continuation of the colonial condition—Puerto...

... Puerto Rico, to articulate one concept over another is also to choose the means of locating colonial power and managing the guilt of indebted women. 3 It is thus a feminist political practice to recognize that the words we speak are more or less broken from being molded so much. Among other possible...

... hurricane struck the coasts of the French island of Dominica. A succinct cable arrived in Puerto Rico, which read: “Communication is cut off in eastern Cuba: the hurricane seems to be approaching Puerto Rico.” 1 Dominica was only a bead in the necklace of islands destroyed by Hurricane San Ciriaco...

..., the priorities of public investment and public debt, and their impact on equity and the prevention of gender violence. There exists only a single analysis of the Puerto Rico government’s budget from a gender perspective, which was carried out in 2005. 3 At the time, it was pointed out that programs...

... of the collapse of public services, it is illegitimate because it serves the interests of creditors above the interests of the people of Puerto Rico, and it is unsustainable because of the social cost that the “payment” entails. However, even though we have been talking for several years about the austerity...

... traveled constantly to Puerto Edén. The Kawésqar were nomads, and they lived in the far south of the country. They sailed along canals together with their families, and their work involved fishing and the selling of furs. In the 1940s, President Pedro Aguirre Cerda relocated them to Puerto Edén, which...

... kawésqar y, desde el punto de vista antropológico, el pueblo estaba extinto. Oscar viajaba constantemente a Puerto Edén. Este pueblo originario era nómada y vivía en el extremo Sur del país. Navegaban por los canales junto a sus familias y su actividad radicaba en la pesca y en la venta de pieles. En...

... and relevance of the network of “Socorristas” in “Los socorrismos.” 14. LASTESIS, “Together We Abort,” 35–36 . 15. The struggles of Black, Indigenous, and Puerto Rican women who were sterilized without consent or even awareness has been at the center of many recent struggles in many parts...

... fantasía de la ley, el puerto seguro y la tierra firme de las certezas patriarco-estatales que nos impiden avanzar. Revisar, por ejemplo, la inalcanzable fórmula inclusiva de los Derechos Humanos “diferentes pero iguales,” que encubre la permanente e intocable asimetría binaria de un sujeto masculino que...

...” and “suppositions based on gender stereotypes.” The case remains under appeal.—Trans. 6. Butler, “Sexual Consent,” 23–24 . 7. On June 11, 2016, in the town of Puerto Madryn in Patagonia, Brian Petrillán broke into his ex-wife Érika Gallego's house and stabbed her several times.—Trans. 8. Diana...

...-pregnant-doubting-ohio-r-rcna38284 . Zambrana Rocío . Colonial Debts: The Case of Puerto Rico . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2021 . Zurawski Amanda . “ Testimony of Amanda Zurawski before the Senate Judiciary Committee: The Assault on Reproductive Rights in a Post- Dobbs...