Transmovimientos

Ellie D. HernÁndez is an associate professor of Chicana/o Studies at University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Postnationalism in Chicana/o Literature and Culture. Eddy Francisco Alvarez Jr. is an assistant professor of Chicana/o Studies at California State University, Fullerton. Magda GarcÍa is a PhD candidate in Chicana/o studies at University of California, Santa Barbara.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Trans vida in Extraordinary TimesEddy Francisco Alvarez Jr., Magda GarcÍa, and Ellie D. HernÁndezTwenty-First-Century Student Movements1. Triunfando con o sin papeles: Muxerista y jotx-historias of DACA-mentation and Activism in Las VegasJoanna NÚÑez, Jasmine Rubalcava-Cuara, and Anita Tijerina Revilla2. Somos joterÍa: UCLA Chicanx Latinx Student Activists Fighting for Social JusticeJosÉ Manuel SantillanaReading Performance and Performativity from Cuba to Los Angeles3. Working Trans in Jaime Cortez’s Sexile/SexilioCarlos Ulises Decena4. Wonder Woman, Pancho Villa, and the Shifting Rio Grande: Transnational jotx Identity, Desire, Pleasure, and Death on the El Paso / JuÁrez BorderOmar GonzÁlez5. Vaqueeros: Muy machos, Wearing the Pants, and Living la vida locaCarlos-Manuel6. Home(bodies): Transitory Belonging at LA’s Oldest Latinx Drag BarKatherine SteelmanMemory and Memoir: Between sueÑos y pesadillas7. Pesadilla convertida en sueÑo: El sueÑo nunca soÑado / A Nightmare Turned Into a Dream: A Dream Never DreamedBamby Salcedo8. “¿QuÉ harÁs si algo me pasa?”: An ofrendaNicholas DuronFrom the Urban Landscape to Sites of Incarceration9. Queering el barrio: Latina Immigrant Street Vendors in Los AngelesLorena MuÑoz10. The Privatized Deportation Center Complex y la trans mujerVerÓnica MandujanoIn Our Own Words: An AfterwordEllie D. HernÁndez, Eddy Francisco Alvarez Jr., and Magda GarcÍaList of ContributorsIndex

“A critical and timely set of subjects, especially given the rampant and castigating racism, homophobia, transphobia, and xenophobia against the Latinx LGBTQI communities in the United States and throughout other countries at this time. The coeditors have brought together important, established, and emerging voices in an exciting manner.”-Rita E. Urquijo-Ruiz, author of Wild Tongues: Transnational Mexican Popular Culture