Playful Protest: The Political Work of Joy in Latinx Media
University of Illinois Press, Feminist Media Studies Series (2023)
"Reflections on Antiracist Feminist Pedagogy and Organizing: This Bridge Called My Back, Forty Years Later"
Feminist Studies, 48.1 (2002).
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“Dominican Futurism: The Speculative Use of Negative Aesthetics in the Work of Rita Indiana.”
Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism 19.2 (2020).
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“Latin Lovers, Chismosas, and Gendered Discourses of Power”: The Role of the Subjective Narrator in Jane the Virgin"
In Decolonizing Latinx Masculinity. Eds. Arturo Aldama and Frederick Aldama. Tuscon: U of Arizona P, 2020.
“The Cuban Missile Crisis of White Masculinity: Tito Bonito and the Burlesque Butt.”
In The Routledge Companion to Gender, Sex and Pop Culture in Latin America.
"Capitalism con Salsa: Money and Popular Culture in Pitbull's Miami"
Presented National Women's Studies Association, Modern Language Association, and Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies @ UMass
Incomodando: On the Role of Bothering in Rita Indiana’s Speculative Work
Published in ASAP/J cluster on the Futurities of Latinx Speculative Fictions, 2019.
“Garzona Nationalism: The Confluence of Gender, Sexuality and Citizenship in the Cuban Republic.”
Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies 35.3 (2014)
“The Political Implications of Playing Hopefully: A Negotiation of the Present and the Utopic in Queer Theory.”
The Un/Making of Latina/o Citizenship: Culture, Politics and Aesthetics. Ed. Ellie D. Hernández and Eliza Rodriguez y Gibson. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014
“‘Who Do I Have to Forgive to Move On From This Place?’: Meditations from a Third World Feminist Lesbian.”
Queer Girls in the Class: Lesbian Teachers and Students Tell Their Classroom Stories. Ed. Lori Horvitz. New York: Peter Lang, 2011
“Traveling Queer Subjects: Homosexuality in the Cuban Diaspora.”
Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 45.3 (2011)
From Canary Birds to Suffrage: Lavinia’s Feminist Role in Who Would Have Thought It?”
Letras Femeninas 35.2: 211-229 (2009)