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In
Streetwalking: LGBTQ Lives and Protest in the Dominican Republic, Lara draws on ethnographic encounters, interviews, films, and videos to discuss the specific strategies employed by LGBTQ community leaders in the Dominican Republic in the exercise of streetwalker subjectivities as those who actively transform silence - verbal, bodily, spiritual - into power.
List of contents
Introduction: Where the Locas Are
Section I: Street Smarts
Chapter 1: Christian Coloniality
Chapter 2: Sexual Terror
Section II: Streetwalking
Chapter 3: Confrontación
Chapter 4: Flipping the Script
Chapter 5: Cuentos
Conclusion: On Silence Transformed
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the author
ANA-MAURINE LARA is a scholar, novelist, and poet. She is an assistant professor in the department of women, gender and sexuality studies at the University of Oregon, and is the author of the creative works
Kohnjehr Woman,
Erzulie's Skirt, and
Sum of Parts.
Summary
Explores the ways that lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer persons exercise power in a Catholic Hispanic heteropatriarchal nation-state, namely the Dominican Republic. Lara presents the specific strategies employed by LGBTQ community leaders in the Dominican Republic in their struggle for subjectivity, recognition, and rights.
