Cuir/Queer Américas

Contributors to this special issue question translation and its politics of “invisibilizing” certain bodies and geographies, shedding light on queer and cuir histories that have confronted the imperial gaze or remained untranslatable. Bringing together bodies and forms of knowledge that have been excluded from queer studies as it has been consolidated in universities in the US and Europe, the authors ask if particular regional or national (or diasporic) traditions have privileged certain queer/cuir texts in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Contributors: Mayra Bottaro, Nicola Chávez Courtright, Ochy Curiel, Jennifer DeClue, Dana Galán / David Aruquipa, Germán Garrido, John Michael Hughson, Tiffany Lethabo King, Christina A. León, Juliana Martínez, Lourdes Martínez-Echazábal, Tavia Nyong'o, Alpesh Kantilal Patel, Rocío Pichon-Rivière, Joseph M. Pierce, Raquel Salas Rivera, Duen Sacchi, Susy Shock, Diego Falconí Trávez, Salvador Vidal-Ortiz, María Amelia Viteri, Marlene Wayar