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July 1, 2022Miya Matsuishi-Elhardt, Ren Liu and Naomi Gutierrez

In spring 2021, Rosa Amador, then a University of Wisconsin-Madison undergraduate student, and Professor Theresa Delgadillo, Mujeres Talk and Latinx Talk co-founder, came up with the idea

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Book Review: Karen Jaime,The Queer Nuyorican: Racialized Sexualities and Aesthetics in Loisaida (NYU Press, 2021)

June 22, 2022Regina Marie Mills

Review by Regina Marie Mills, Texas A&M University Karen Jaime’s The Queer Nuyorican begins with her own experience at the legendary Nuyorican Poets Café in

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The Poetics of Krudxs Cubensi in Concierto Abortero: Abortion, Music, and Transnational Feminism(s)

May 17, 2022José E. Valdivia Heredia

Introduction: A Krudxs Poetics “Abortion is a celebration! Drink [some alcohol] with us,” our moderators, La Zea and Eliana Riaño Vivas, exclaim to the approximately

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Queer Diasporic Sensibilities: Unicorns, Glitter, and Loss in Maya Chinchilla’s Chapina Poética

May 11, 2022Ruben Zecena

Image by Rio Yañez and Yolanda Lopez 2014 Maya Chinchilla’s poem, “What It’s Like to Be a Central American Unicorn for Those Who Aren’t,” offers

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Agency in Afro-Brazilian Travesti and Trans Feminine Music

April 28, 2022Tiago Canário

I decree that it ends here and now I decree that it ends with me, and does not end me I decree that it ends

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“Is that a promise or a threat?”: Using (Un) Documents to examine how performances of citizenship construct the dichotomous “good” and “bad” immigrant.

April 22, 2022Jesus Gregorio Smith

“I’ve been looking at the border for a long time and asking, ‘Is that a promise or a threat?’” So asks queer performance artist Jesús

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The ‘Silence’ After ‘The Silence’: Queer Latinx Literary Studies’ Critical Engagement of Junot Díaz

April 13, 2022Ricardo Ortiz

The publication of “The Silence: The Legacy of Childhood Trauma,” Junot Díaz’s confessional piece about being raped twice by a family friend when he was

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“She’s …uh…Complicated”: Trans Black Latina Potentiality

April 11, 2022Andrea Bolivar

Pride Home[1] is a small homeless shelter for young adults, located in a predominately Latinx neighborhood on the West Side of Chicago. While open to

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Latinx Trans and Queer

The Poetics of Krudxs Cubensi in Concierto Abortero: Abortion, Music, and Transnational Feminism(s)

May 17, 2022José E. Valdivia Heredia

Introduction: A Krudxs Poetics “Abortion is a celebration! Drink [some alcohol] with

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Image by Rio Yañez and Yolanda Lopez 2014

Queer Diasporic Sensibilities: Unicorns, Glitter, and Loss in Maya Chinchilla’s Chapina Poética

Agency in Afro-Brazilian Travesti and Trans Feminine Music

“Is that a promise or a threat?”: Using (Un) Documents to examine how performances of citizenship construct the dichotomous “good” and “bad” immigrant.

COVID-19

Vulnerable Bodies: Domestic Violence in the Hispanic/Latinx Community During a Pandemic

October 15, 2020Karina Elizabeth Vázquez, Sadie Wenger and Danny Frascella

While it is easily argued that domestic violence is a public health

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Documenting Latinx Communities: Podcasting and Oral History in the Time of COVID-19

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Transitioning U.S. Latinx Students to an Online Environment for Displaced Study Abroad Students

Essential Latinx Educators: Teaching in a Time of Pandemic

Black Lives Matter

Centering Interracial Solidarity

September 1, 2021Mario Obando

Over the summer of 2020, I observed many social media posts forged

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Organizing on the Ground for BLM: A Gay Mixed Black and Mexican Perspective

November 18, 2020

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The Intersections of Black and Latina/o/x Radical Traditions

November 16, 2020

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Dear Latines: Your Antiblackness Will Not Save You

November 11, 2020

Reviews

Book Review: Karen Jaime,The Queer Nuyorican: Racialized Sexualities and Aesthetics in Loisaida (NYU Press, 2021)

June 22, 2022Regina Marie Mills

Review by Regina Marie Mills, Texas A&M University Karen Jaime’s The Queer

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A conversation with Allyson P. Brantley on her new book, Brewing a Boycott: How a Grassroots Coalition Fought Coors and Remade American Consumer Activism

September 20, 2021

A Conversation with Professor Larry La Fountain-Stokes on his new book, Translocas: The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance

A Conversation with historian Max Krochmal on his award winning book, Blue Texas: The Making of a Multiracial Democratic Coalition in the Civil Rights Era

In Academia

Announcing Our New Editorial Board Members

October 17, 2020Latinx Talk

Latinx Talk is excited to announce the appointment of three new members to

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Essential Latinx Educators: Teaching in a Time of Pandemic

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Compassionate Pedagogies in a Pandemic: Reflections from Latina Scholars

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New Editorial and Advisory Board Members

Informed Commentary

The Voices of “La Brega: Stories of the Puerto Rican Experience”

October 11, 2021Rebeca L. Hey-Colón

“Brega pana, dale.” This sentence may appear nonsensical to many readers, even

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Covid 19, Latinx Culture and Technology: Opportunities for Culturally Responsive Research

Vulnerable Bodies: Domestic Violence in the Hispanic/Latinx Community During a Pandemic

October 15, 2020

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Bodega Dreams in Austin, Texas

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Mini-Readers
Book Review: Karen Jaime,The Queer Nuyorican: Racialized Sexualities and Aesthetics in Loisaida (NYU Press, 2021)
The Poetics of Krudxs Cubensi in Concierto Abortero: Abortion, Music, and Transnational Feminism(s)
Queer Diasporic Sensibilities: Unicorns, Glitter, and Loss in Maya Chinchilla’s Chapina Poética
Agency in Afro-Brazilian Travesti and Trans Feminine Music

Interview with María DeGuzmán, Author of Understanding John Rechy (University of South Carolina Press, 2019) – Latinx Talk on Hammers and Home
Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes on Chapinx: Guatemalan, Queer, and In Between
David C. on Mariconología / Mariconólogy: Notes on the History and Use of Maricón
Juan A. Ríos Vega on Mariconología / Mariconólogy: Notes on the History and Use of Maricón
Xavier David Bonilla on The Intersections of Black and Latina/o/x Radical Traditions

The Underrepresentation of Latinx Faculty and the Future of Higher Education
Inheriting a Path: Rosie Castro’s Influence on Julián and Joaquin
Restoring History, Brick by Brick
Border College: The Past, Its Present, Our Future
Moral Panic! At Halftime: Legacies of the Latin Boom Meet Gendered and Regional Latinidades

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