Traditionally, the Mexican myth of La Llorona and the Dominican ciguapa legend correspond to misogynist stereotypes; at the same time, there are versions of the folktales rooted in Azteca and...

In this conversation between Karleen Pendleton Jiménez and Isabel Millán, they reflect on their experiences as authors and their relationship spanning over a decade. As queer Chicanx authors and...

In “Mujeres y Madness: Deconstructing Chicana Teoria on Locura, Queerness, and Love,” I explore the intersections of Chicanidad, queerness, and mental health as I navigate locura as a "typology in...

John Rechy, the eternal literary outsider or “outlaw,” as he prefers, has provided nearly sixty years of sharp, critical analysis through several written media— journalistic articles, short...

27 years after her murder, Selena Quintanilla Pérez, “The Queen of Tejano Music,” remains a prominent icon among Latinx communities in the U.S. and beyond. Deborah Paredez coined the...

Theatre on the borderlands is a genre of performance traditionally entrenched in rigid definitions of gender, but the genre also contains a refutation of the universalizing mantle of...