In recent years, queer studies have made significant strides in various domains worldwide, including cinema, business, television, academia, street activism, politics, and sports.
Latine/x identity extends beyond a specific month or celebration. As immigrants away from our home country or first-generation living in a new state, we find self-acceptance in spaces where we can find a sense of belonging and freedom in communicating our culture through contemporary expression.
The seminar on Queer/Crip Wastelands, a course which examined the intersections of queerness, disability and the environment, was one of the liveliest I’ve ever taken. During our discussion of ecofeminism, my classmate Emma offered us a photograph she thought could help us think about feminist art in which humans embraces the environment.
I first learned about Santa Muerte one tranquil Sunday evening in Mexico City. Like most Sunday evenings, I was sitting around the kitchen table with my host, taking a break from my work at an education non-profit through the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies’ summer internship program.
The Argentine writer Sylvia Molloy (1938-2022) tells us: “I feel comfortable with the very fluidity of the term queer, whether written with q or c.
José María Eguren seems to have had no interest in sexual activity. A renowned professor of contemporary poetry told us when he introduced this prominent Peruvian poet of the twentieth century.
From the moment I learned the international Caribbean Studies Association’s 2023 meeting would be held in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, I understood it was an invitation to celebrate the life, love and legacy of Gloria I. Joseph and Audre Lorde.
My book Out in the Periphery heralded Latin America’s emergence as the “undisputed champion of gay rights in the Global South,” a momentous happening considering the region’s historic reputation as a bastion of Catholicism and machismo.
