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Review by Regina Marie Mills, Texas A&M University Karen Jaime’s The Queer Nuyorican begins with her own experience at the
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Over the summer of 2020, I observed many social media posts forged in the weeks after the murder of George
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Larry La Fountain-Stokes is Professor of Spanish, American Culture, and Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Michigan. In
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During my spring break in Rosario, Argentina I was woken up on an early overcast Thursday morning by the ping
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Colorblindness betrayed me on Tuesday, November 8th, 2016. To be fair, it did announce its arrival the night before. When
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On February 2nd, 2020, roughly 103 million global television viewers witnessed perhaps the most hotly discussed Latina/o/x live musical event
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In August, 2017, President Trump pardoned former Maricopa County (Arizona) Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who a federal court found guilty of