Spotlight
Queer in Latin America
LGBTQ+ Perspectives
Photo by Tomas Amorim
The latest Spotlight, “Queer in Latin America: LGBTQ+ Perspectives,” focuses on a variety of themes, ranging from arts and culture to the trans community to thinking on the queer. The Spotlight, which encompasses Latin America, the Caribbean and Latinx issues, will become the Fall 2023 issue of ReVista.
Articles
My Queerness is an Asymptote
I was born and raised in north-central Florida—no, not Orlando—spending summers visiting family in Puerto Rico.
The Erotics of Play: An Asexual Reading of the Poetic Work of José María Eguren
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.
The Silenced Crimes: Hate speech and Crimes against LGBTQ+ People in the Peruvian Amazon, by Elizabeth Salazar Vega & Photos by Marco Garro
In mid-2021, Peru was winding up an intense presidential run-off race between right-wing candidate Keiko Fujimori and leftist Pedro Castillo.
A Review of The Political Body: Stories on Art, Feminism, and Emancipation in Latin America by Andrea Giunta
Back in 2013 when I started the research for Dissident Practices: Brazilian Women Artists 1960s-2020s (Duke University Press, 2023), I encountered a strong resistance to the term “feminism” among women artists from the 1960s and 1970s.
Complicated Small Island Love Poems
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.
A Review of Evading the Patronage Trap: Interest Representation in Mexico
I was asked to write a “personal review,” so here it is. This fabulous book by Brian Palmer-Rubin made me jealous.
A poem by Jay Lynn
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.
A Review of Panama in Black: Afro-Caribbean World Making in the Twentieth Century
Kaysha Corinealdi’s new book awakened old memories for me, dating to when I first arrived in Panama in 1964.
A Review of For God and Liberty: Catholicism and Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1790-1861
Pamela Voekel’s For God and Liberty is a tour de force. Her research spans religious and secular archives throughout the vast Catholic world of the Age of Revolution and its aftermath.
A Review of Yerba Mate: The Drink that Shaped a Nation
On any given day, millions of South Americans—in the subcontinent and around the world—would engage in the same ritual. We heat water (making sure it doesn’t boil), prepare the mate, and sip, sip and sip. But where does that green, earthy, addictive, and for many outside South America exotic, drink comes from?