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Intensiones: Tensions in Queer Agency and Activism in Latino América
- Feminist Studies
- Feminist Studies, Inc.
- Volume 43, Number 2, 2017
- pp. 405-417
- 10.1353/fem.2017.0028
- Article
- Additional Information
Abstract:
This essay traces the intellectual journey of the Queer/Cuir/Cuyr Américas Working Group, a dedicated network of queer scholars from across the Americas who came together to address how knowledge is produced and constructed as Anglocentric and North-centric and how it circulates across the hemisphere. I discuss how this occurs by placing heteronormativity at the center to cross-examine the multiple ways in which it feeds both socialist and capitalist regimes. Thinking cuir as well as thinking cuir feminista confronts gender, sexual, racial, and/or ethnic determinism.