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Queering the border, essays, Emma Pérez

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-162)

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Queering the border

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Emma Pérez

essays

"You will never know how it feels to have brown skin and a Mexican name. You will never know what it is like to watch your mother struggle with white words." In this collection of prose pieces, author and scholar Emma Pérez explores the intersection of race, class, gender and sexuality. A Chicanx queer lesbian "who honors my mother and her plight within patriarchal institutions" that limit women's opportunities, Pérez writes about issues that have impacted her Tejano family for generations, including sexual politics and power relations between Anglo and Hispanic men. A historian by training, her work aims to decolonize the Southwest by uncovering voices from the past that validate multiple experiences. Essays reveal the influence of Gloria Anzaldúa's scholarship in her personal and academic lives; recount the controversy surrounding artist Alma Lopez's digital print, "Our Lady," in which the Virgin of Guadalupe appears in a provocative bikini; and evaluate interviews with 25 LGBTQ people in the El Paso/Ciudad Juárez area to expose life on the border as a queer of color. This collection also includes short fiction and an epistolary love poem to the first feminist of the Americas, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, or in this case, Sor Juanx. Bringing together the work of a noted Chicanx writer and academic, this volume reinforces the body of work by LGBTQ people of color dealing with racism and sexism, conquest and colonization, power and privilege, all with a particular emphasis on the Southwest borderlands. -- Back cover

Sito y lengua (site and discourse) -- Nopales (2015) -- Cages (2018) -- An epistolary love poem to Sor Juanx (2019) -- Letter to Gloria Anzaldúa (2020) -- Sexuality and discourse : notes from a Chicana survivor (1991) -- Queering the border -- Queering the borderlands : the challenges of excavating the invisible and unheard (2003) -- Gloria Anzaldúa : la gran nueva mestiza theorist, writer, activist-scholar (2005) -- It's not about gender in my nation, but about the nation in my gender : the decolonial Virgen in a decolonial site (2011) -- Decolonial border queers : case studies of lesbians, gay men and transgender folks in El Paso/Juárez (2012) -- So far from God, so close to the United States : a call for action by US authorities (2003) -- The decolonial imaginary revisited -- The imaginary as will to feel : beyond the decolonial turn in Chicanx/Latinx feminism (2020) -- Trio

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