Transmovimientos - (Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies) by Ellie D Hernandez & Eddy Francisco Alvarez & Magda García

About the Book

This anthology features work by and about queer, trans, and gender nonconforming Latinx communities, including immigrants and social dissidents who reflect on and write about diaspora and migratory movements while navigating geographical and embodied spaces in the United States.

Book Synopsis

2022 International Latino Book Award Finalist for Best LGBTQ Studies Book

Within a trans-embodied framework, this anthology identifies transmovimientos as the creative force or social mechanism through which queer, trans, and gender nonconforming Latinx communities navigate their location and calibrate their consciousness. This anthology unveils a critical perspective with the emphasis on queer, trans, and gender nonconforming communities of immigrants and social dissidents who reflect on and write about diaspora and migratory movements while navigating geographical and embodied spaces across gendered and racialized contexts, all crucial elements of the trans-movements taking place in the United States.

This collection forms a nuanced conversation between scholarship and social activism that speaks in concrete ways about diasporic and migratory LGBTQ communities who suffer from immoral immigration policies and political discourses that produce untenable living situations. The focal point of analysis throughout Transmovimientos examines migratory movements and anti-immigrant sentiment, homophobia, and stigma toward people who are transgender, immigrants, and refugees. These deliberate consciousness-based expressions are designed to realign awareness about the body in transit and the diasporic experience of relocating and emerging into new possibilities.

Review Quotes

"A critical and timely set of subjects, especially given the rampant and castigating racism, homophobia, transphobia, and xenophobia against the Latinx LGBTQI communities in the United States and throughout other countries at this time. The coeditors have brought together important, established, and emerging voices in an exciting manner."--Rita E. Urquijo-Ruiz, author of Wild Tongues: Transnational Mexican Popular Culture

About the Author

Ellie D. Hernández is an associate professor of Chicana/o Studies at University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Postnationalism in Chicana/o Literature and Culture. Eddy Francisco Alvarez Jr. is an assistant professor of Chicana/o Studies at California State University, Fullerton. Magda García is a PhD candidate in Chicana/o studies at University of California, Santa Barbara.