..., living with HIV, and creating a queer community. In the end, reading Sexile as a text about being trans in relation to HIV and the AIDS crisis highlights Adela Vasquez's specific experience as a transwoman and becomes an act of historical reclamation. When certain memories are not recorded...

... and beautifully illustrated graphic biography of Adela, a trans woman who fled Cuba for the United States, where one version of this phantasmatic development is articulated. In three panels at the beginning of the text, Adela recalls being a child and thinking, “I couldn't wait to grow up because I knew that when...

... of transfeminist zines off our zero hours teaching assistant printer budgets.” See also Harney and Moten 2013 . 3. For a partial history of zine culture with a North American queer and trans people of color focus, see Daniel C. Brouwer and Adela C. Licona ( 2016 : 74–75). Our health system which...

... . www.youtube.com/watch?v=li6Y9nAwmf8 . Vazquez Adela , and Cortez Jaime . 2004 . Sexile . Los Angeles : Institute for Gay Men's Health . 4. Selen Ravache, phone interview by the author, June 6, 2016. 3. Jovanna Baby, phone interview by the author, May 20, 2016. 2. I use we...