Transmovimientos

Latinx Queer Migrations, Bodies, and Spaces

Ellie D. Hernandez, Eddy Francisco Alvarez, Magda García

• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN:
  9781496225894
• eBook ISBN:
  9781496227140
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Mexican History
• Index: Social Sciences

2022 International Latino Book Award Finalist for Best LGBTQ Studies Book

Within a trans-embodied framework, this anthology identifies transmovimientos as the creative force or social mechanism through which queer, trans, and gender nonconforming Latinx communities navigate their location and calibrate their consciousness. This anthology unveils a critical perspective with the emphasis on queer, trans, and gender nonconforming communities of immigrants and social dissidents who reflect on and write about diaspora and migratory movements while navigating geographical and embodied spaces across gendered and racialized contexts, all crucial elements of the trans-movements taking place in the United States.

This collection forms a nuanced conversation between scholarship and social activism that speaks in concrete ways about diasporic and migratory LGBTQ communities who suffer from immoral immigration policies and political discourses that produce untenable living situations. The focal point of analysis throughout Transmovimientos examines migratory movements and anti-immigrant sentiment, homophobia, and stigma toward people who are transgender, immigrants, and refugees. These deliberate consciousness-based expressions are designed to realign awareness about the body in transit and the diasporic experience of relocating and emerging into new possibilities.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Twenty-First-Century Student Movements
• 1. Triunfando con o sin papeles
• 2. Somos jotería
• Reading Performance and Performativity from Cuba to Los Angeles
• 3. Working Trans in Jaime Cortez’s Sexile/Sexilio
• 4. Wonder Woman, Pancho Villa, and the Shifting Rio Grande
• 5. Vaqueeros
• 6. Home(bodies)
• Memory and Memoir
• 7. Pesadilla convertida en sueño/ A Nightmare Turned Into a Dream
• 8. “¿Qué harás si algo me pasa?”
• From the Urban Landscape to Sites of Incarceration
• 9. Queering el barrio
• 10. The Privatized Deportation Center Complex y la trans mujer
• In Our Own Words
• List of Contributors
• Index
• About Ellie D. Hernández
• About Eddy Francisco Alvarez Jr
• About Magda García
• Series List