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Transmovimientos - Latinx Queer Migrations, Bodies, and Spaces

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This anthology features work by and about queer, trans, and gender nonconforming Latinx communities, including immigrants and social dissidents who reflect on and write about diaspora and migratory movements while navigating geographical and embodied spaces in the United States.
 

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List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Trans vida in Extraordinary Times
Eddy Francisco Alvarez Jr., Magda García, and Ellie D. Hernández
Twenty-First-Century Student Movements
1. Triunfando con o sin papeles: Muxerista y jotx-historias of DACA-mentation and Activism in Las Vegas
Joanna Núñez, Jasmine Rubalcava-Cuara, and Anita Tijerina Revilla
2. Somos jotería: UCLA Chicanx Latinx Student Activists Fighting for Social Justice
José Manuel Santillana
Reading Performance and Performativity from Cuba to Los Angeles
3. Working Trans in Jaime Cortez’s Sexile/Sexilio
Carlos Ulises Decena
4. Wonder Woman, Pancho Villa, and the Shifting Rio Grande: Transnational jotx Identity, Desire, Pleasure, and Death on the El Paso / Juárez Border
Omar González
5. Vaqueeros: Muy machos, Wearing the Pants, and Living la vida loca
Carlos-Manuel
6. Home(bodies): Transitory Belonging at LA’s Oldest Latinx Drag Bar
Katherine Steelman
Memory and Memoir: Between sueños y pesadillas
7. Pesadilla convertida en sueño: El sueño nunca soñado / A Nightmare Turned Into a Dream: A Dream Never Dreamed
Bamby Salcedo
8. “¿Qué harás si algo me pasa?”: An ofrenda
Nicholas Duron
From the Urban Landscape to Sites of Incarceration
9. Queering el barrio: Latina Immigrant Street Vendors in Los Angeles
Lorena Muñoz
10. The Privatized Deportation Center Complex y la trans mujer
Verónica Mandujano
In Our Own Words: An Afterword
Ellie D. Hernández, Eddy Francisco Alvarez Jr., and Magda García
List of Contributors
Index

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Ellie D. Hernández is an associate professor of Chicana/o Studies at University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Postnationalism in Chicana/o Literature and Culture. Eddy Francisco Alvarez Jr. is an assistant professor of Chicana/o Studies at California State University, Fullerton. Magda García is a PhD candidate in Chicana/o studies at University of California, Santa Barbara.
 

Summary

This anthology features work by and about queer, trans, and gender nonconforming Latinx communities, including immigrants and social dissidents who reflect on and write about diaspora and migratory movements while navigating geographical and embodied spaces in the United States.

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