...Lourdes Torres Since the scholarship that exists on lesbian organizing in the Midwest neglects to engage with the history of Latina lesbian organizing, this project focuses on Latina lesbians as agents of change and active subjects of a multiracial history of grass-roots organizing. I explore...

...Alessa Dominguez Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures, and Other Latina Longings . Juana María Rodríguez . New York : New York University Press , 2014 . x + 245 pp. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 THE POTENTIALITY OF THE LATINA FEMME GESTURE BOOKS IN BRIEF 143 Alessa Dominguez...

...Yessica Garcia Hernandez © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 References Casillas Ines Dolores Ferrada Juan Sebastian Hinojos Sara Veronica . 2018 . “ The Accent on Modern Family: Listening to Representation of the Latina Vocal Body .” Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies...

... of “Sex” . New York : Routledge . Cabral Mauro . 2003 . “ Ciudadanía (trans) sexual.” Artículo sobre Tesis Premiada, Proyecto “Sexualidades salud y derechos humanos en América Latina.” IESSDEH (Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia) , 1 – 8 . reconstruyendoelpensamiento .blogspot.com.ar...

.... She is working on a manuscript on interracial desire, queer sexualities, and gender nonconformity in nineteenth-century depictions of US slavery and race relations. Julie Avril Minich is assistant professor in the departments of English and Mexican American and Latina/o Studies...

... issue of Women and Performance titled “Lingering in Latinidad: Theory, Aesthetics, and Performance in Latina/o Studies.” Her articles and essays have appeared in Sargasso: A Journal of Caribbean Language , Literature and Culture , Post-45 , Curiosity Studies: A New Ecology of Knowledge , and ASAP...

...,” “a Latina,” “a Lesbian.”Z6 The new deity, “She,” signifies an inversion of the whole enchilada [of] race class LUIS ALFARO’S SIMULATIVE CHALLENGE 209 sex gender privilege...

...-and-ongoing-tragedy-against-lgbtstgnc-poc . Garcia Feliks . 2016 . “ After #Orlando, Trans Latinx Activists Hope Their Stories Are Told .” Independent , June 15 . www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/orlando-nightclub-shooting-transgender-latino-latina-victim-stories-a7084391.html...

... Left My Country for This?! ” Trikone Magazine 14 , no. 4 ( 1999 ): 8 – 9 . Vidal-Ortiz Salvador . 2015 . “ Introduction: Brown Writing Queer: A Composite of Latina/o LGBT Activism .” In Queer Brown Voices: Personal Narratives of Latina/o LGBT Activism , edited by Quesada Uriel...

... in Latino/a Studies in the Global South. Yessica Garcia Hernandez is a filmmaker and assistant professor in the Depart- ment of Latina/o Studies at San Francisco State University. She has published in the Journal of Popular Music, New American Notes Online, Imagining America, Journal of Ethnomusicology...

... Studies at the Uni- versity of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and is the former director of the Latina/o Studies Program (2011 – 16). He is the author of Queer Ricans: Cultures and Sexualities in the Diaspora (2009) and of two books of ction: Uñas pintadas de azul / Blue Fin- gernails...

... the history of Midwest Latina lesbian organizing by two Chicago-­based groups, Amigas Latina, still in existence, and its (spiritual) predecessor LLENA. Intermingling oral histories and archival sources, Torres maps a complex and sometimes unsettling history of queer women of color activism...

..., particularly for the hundreds of thousands of Puerto Rican residents of the Orlando metro- politan region, the lead destination of our new migration, but also for the extended Puerto Rican nation, a Latina and Latino and Latinx nightmare in the unpleasant shadow of US imperialism...

... gay male subject, are incomplete. Further- more, as Juana María Rodríguez suggests in her Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures, and Other Latina Longings (2014), such monocultural framings are also danger- ous. “The inability to recognize the alternative sexual cultures, intimacies...

... Press in 2007. He is working on a second book project, titled “Tes- timonial Fictions: Atrocity, Sexuality, and Memory in US Latin@ Literature and Culture.” Richard T. Rodríguez is associate professor of English and Latina/Latino studies at the University of Illinois...

...: The Body Narratives of Transsexuality . New York : Columbia University Press . Quesada Uriel Gomez Letitia Vidal-Ortiz Salvador , eds. 2015 . Queer Brown Voices: Personal Narratives of Latina/o LGBT Activism . Austin : University of Texas Press . Richard Nelly . 2004...

... performer to audience as her body maps the “aquí” — the hereness — of Vargas’s suggestive refrain, commanding her lover (the audience) to touch her and show- ing her exactly where. Each time Vargas entreats her lover, “Macorina,” Anthony intones “Maricona,” inserting the queer Latina marker — feminine...

... understandings of brownness, feeling/sensing brown, and the brown commons. Muñoz rejects singular definitions of brownness and does not attach it to any particular affect. For instance, in chapter 10, “Wise Latinas,” Muñoz responds to queer Latinx studies scholar Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes's criticism...

... . “ A History of Latina/o Sexualities .” In Latina/o Sexualities: Probing Powers, Passions, Practices, and Policies , edited by Asencio Marysol , 13 – 37 . New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press . Hackett Robin . 2004 . Sapphic Primitivism: Productions of Race, Class, and Sexuality in Key...

... unprotected. AZTLÁN UNPROTECTED Reading Gil Cuadros in the Aftermath of HIV/AIDS Julie Avril Minich Among US Latino men who have sex with men, HIV/AIDS remains an urgent health concern. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2015b), Latinas/os accounted for more than one...