Special issue: Rethinking Obscenity in Latin America: Abjection, Art, and Performance”

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We are pleased to announce the publication of our latest issue (33.2), available here and part of a double special issue on Rethinking Obscenity in Latin America:

Guest-edited by Javier Fernández Galeano and Zeb Tortorici


Introduction: “Rethinking Obscenity in Latin America: Obscenity, Art, and Performance”
By Javier Fernández Galeano and Zeb Tortorici
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«A Chola Sex Party: Anal and Concha Art»
By Olga Rodriguez-Ulloa
«La Bella Otero’s Overdetermined Anality: Tales of Sexual Inversion in Early Twentieth-Century Buenos Aires»
By Mir Yarfitz
«108: Memory, Libido, and Obscenity between Paraguay and Brazil»
By Clara Cuevas, Cleiton Zóia Münchow, and Erwing Szokol
“’Walking around naked sets back our struggle’: Travesti Activism, Repression, and Public Space in Buenos Aires (1994–1998)»
By Ana G. Alvarez
«Decolonial Excesses: Racial and Sexual Dissidence in Johan Mijail’s Amor vegetal»
by Elena Valdez
«The Bisexual Erasure of Emiliano Zapata: Obscenity and Censorship in Postrevolutionary Mexico»
By Robert Franco
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Roundtable/Photo Essay with Archivo El Insulto.
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«The Insubordination of the Gaze: Marian Icon and Performance in the Mujeres Creando Collective»
By Carol Arcos-Herrera

«In Memory of Ana M. López»
By Dolores Tierney
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