The Institute of Puerto Rican Culture (ICP), its publishing house Editorial ICP, and Ediciones Callejón launched the book Cuentos “completos” Manuel Ramos Otero on December 12, 2023, at the Victoria Espinosa Theater in Santurce (San Juan, Puerto Rico). This edition gathers published and unpublished stories by the author. Here are excerpts from El Adoquín Times.…
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Toggle Sidebar New Book Translocas: The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance Translocas: The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance by Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes has just been published by University of Michigan Press (2021). [I love the cover, which features great photo of the outstanding performance artist Freddie Mercado. As soon as we get more information of the cover art, we will share!] Description: Translocas focuses on drag and transgender performance and activism in Puerto Rico and its diaspora. Arguing for its political potential, Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes explores the social and cultural disruptions caused by Latin American and Latinx “locas” (effeminate men, drag queens, transgender performers, and unruly women) and the various forms of violence to which queer individuals in Puerto Rico and the U.S. are subjected. This interdisciplinary, auto-ethnographic, queer-of-color performance studies book explores the lives and work of contemporary performers and activists including Sylvia Rivera, Nina Flowers, Freddie Mercado, Javier Cardona, Jorge Merced, Erika Lopez, Holly Woodlawn, Monica Beverly Hillz, Lady Catiria, and Barbra Herr; television programs such as RuPaul’s