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...-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...

... . Vargas Deborah . 2014 . “ Ruminations on Lo Sucio as a Latino Queer Analytic .” American Quarterly 66 , no. 3 : 715 – 26 . 590 GLQ: A JOURNAL OF LESBIAN AND GAY STUDIES THE PORNOGRAPHIC GRAMMAR OF THE VOCAL LATINX BODY Yessica Garcia Hernandez During the summer of 2018 I taught a course...

...Mario I. Suárez 230 GLQ: A JOURNAL OF LESBIAN AND GAY STUDIES BYE GIRL, OR BYE BOY, OR WHATEVER YOU ARE! A Latinx Transgender Man s Experience with Queer Battle Fatigue in Texas Mario I. Suárez I am a Latinx man of transgender experience, assigned female- at- birth, from a small, rural town...

... add, as a scholar whose entrance into studying Latinx literature was via a teenage interest in the politics of representation in film, I'm also personally committed to giving my students opportunities to see their lives and faces reflected on the historically white dominated Hollywood screen...

... as constitutive of Latinx identity. Here she focuses primarily on another athlete, Sammy Sosa. Sosa, an Afro-Dominican baseball player, received much criticism after his retirement for using skin lightening creams and being evasive about it. This chapter perhaps makes the most creative, original argument...

... task of editing and providing an opening for the posthumous publication of José Esteban Muñoz's The Sense of Brown . While dwelling on the book's incompleteness yet its long time coming, Chambers-Letson and Nyong'o provide a beautiful genealogy of Muñoz's scholarship in queer studies, Latinx studies...

... surveillance and spectatorship” (16). What is unique about the book is that it takes a hemispheric approach to Latinx sexualities, and it traces the word puta to Cuba, Mexico, Latin American, and Puerto Rico, among other places. The book investigates both the historical and contemporary currents that offer...

... act out their lives, it could not stop them. The Black and Latinx queer characters at the center of the following two cultural texts—John Leguizamo's performance of the “Manny the Fanny” character from his 1991 show Mambo Mouth , and Sean Baker's 2015 film Tangerine —find themselves barred, like...

...Christina A. León [email protected] Brown Trans Figurations: Rethinking Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Chicanx/Latinx Studies . Francisco J. Galarte . Austin : University of Texas Press , 2021 . viii + 192 pp. Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 At a moment...

... and their historizations within Asian American–Latinx and Latin American studies. By comparing the disabling colonial policies of Hispano-imperial administrations and their impacts on the mestizo and other racialized groups within the caste system ( las castas ), further intervention on the colonial archive may...

... outward toward a future ten years from now that shares in the sunlight's inviting warmth. In fall 2017, I redesigned my semester-long “Introduction to Latinx Literatures and Cultures” course to include a unit on contemporary representations of Latinx youth. The course enrolled mostly first- and second...

...Gayatri Gopinath References Berlant Lauren . 2011 . Cruel Optimism . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Cruz Jorge . 2022 . “ Traversing Intimate Spaces: The Photography of Fabian Guerrero .” Latinx Project , June 30 . https://www.latinxproject.nyu.edu/intervenxions...

...Germán Garrido Abstract This essay focuses on two radical gay/ homosexual organizations of the early 1970s: Third World Gay Revolution (TWGR)—a small group of radical Black and Latinx activists that spun off from the Gay Liberation Front in 1970—and the Argentine organization Homosexual Liberation...

...Rosario Martínez Pogar Chicana lesbian feminist writer and activist Cherríe Moraga has been roundly critiqued by Chicanx and Latinx trans scholars for the gender essentialism and concomitant transphobia she espouses in her essay “Still Loving in the (Still) War Years: On Keeping Queer Queer...

..., 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 and war, one that has affected Latin American and Caribbean people disproportionately, because of a long legacy...

..., witnessing them. Moreover, from her earliest essay, “Sexuality and Discourse: Notes from a Chicana Survivor” (1991), to her latest ones in 2020, “Letter to Gloria Anzaldúa” and “The Imaginary as Will to Feel: Beyond the Decolonial Turn in Chicanx/Latinx Feminism,” the reader can see, feel, and sense Pérez's...

... the voice—both politically and sonically—of Jennicet Gutiérrez, a Latinx trans woman who famously (or infamously, depending on who you ask) interrupted former President Barack Obama's remarks at the 2015 White House LGBT Pride Celebration. Carefully framing their critique within a discussion of the racist...

... a significant impact on queer studies scholarship and in university courses in Latinx studies, gender and sexuality studies, and film and media studies. This dossier spotlights the impact of Guerrero's film—focused on the intimate bond between two fifteen-year-old Latinas growing up in the working-class...

... – 613 . Flores Veronica Bayetti . 2016 . “ The Pulse Nightclub Shooting Robbed the Queer Latinx Community of a Sanctuary .” Remezcla , June 13 . remezcla.com/features/music/pulse-nightclub-sanctuary/ . Foucault Michel . 1991 . “ Right of Death and Power over Life...