... of what I argue is punk’s puro pedo temporality. Puro pedo or the general pedo is a Spanish Tex-Mex vernacular term that has a range of meanings, translations, and utility. In general, puro pedo is understood to mean talk with no action, bullshit, “no worries,” or other significations of insouciance. Puro...

... issue, for example, Matthew Carillo-­Vincent traces the postpunk sub­ cultural ethos of emo in the United States and Mexico. Deb Vargas offers a careful account of pura pedo in southwestern music that mixes postpunk with cojunto music, and pushes them...

... Oscar award – winning film Mystic River participates in changing representations of the pedo- phile in the United States, looking in particular at how recent screenings of the pedophile create a genre for what Stuart Hall calls “new times.”1 Eastwood’s film, adapting Dennis Lehane’s 2001 crime...

... killing, which occurred within the confines of the Souza-Baranowski overshadowed Correctional Center, was gruesome and has been reported in vivid detail, but, curiously, little moral outrage occurred. After all, this was a pedo- the fact that a phile who was killed...

... genre informs 1990s and 2000s films depicting pedophiles as predators indiscernible to the naked eye. Harkins provides an overview of how the “virtual pedo- phile” emerges through a combination of filmic and forensic forms before...

...-M, pedo- philia, homoeroticism, and cross-dressing. The cover of the National several features Examiner of 12 March 1991 featured an outrageously doctored image of Hussein in a slinky one-piece dress next to the heading “Secret CIA about Saddam report reveals Saddam Hussein’s Bizarre...

... of “gender identity disorders not resulting from physical impairments” as a disability — couched in an exclusionary clause that included “transvestitism, transsexualism, pedo- philia, exhibitionism, voyeurism, . . . ‘other sexual disorders,’ ” and com...