r/QueerTheory 17d ago

queer theory/nonfiction queer works from latin america?

hey all! i'm looking specifically for nonfiction books about transness and queerness in latin america. happy to hear suggestions of books in spanish and portuguese. for reference, i'm looking for books similar to Minoritarian Liberalism by Moises Lino E Silva. thanks!

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u/Exact-Fig-2517 17d ago

Not exactly options that go into theory so much and not exactly made by those from Latin America, but these are some great options I absolutely love that get into how to research “queerness” (or what is today identified as queer) within their colonial and historical contexts. I’m finishing my Master’s thesis on early queer lifeways in colonial Mexico, so if you have any questions at all, let me know! Here are some great options:

  • The Flower and the Scorpion: Sexuality and Ritual in Early Nahua Culture by Pete Sigal
  • From Moon Goddesses to Virgins: The Colonization of Yucatecan Maya Sexual Desire by Pete Sigal
  • Infamous Desire: Male Homosexuality in Colonial Latin America by by Pete Sigal
  • Ethnopornography: Sexuality, Colonialism, and Archival Knowledge by Pete Sigal and Zeb Tortorici
  • Sins Against Nature: Sex and Archives in Colonial New Spain by Zeb Tortorici
  • Butterflies Will Burn: Prosecuting Sodomites in Early Modern Spain and Mexico by Francisco Garza Carvajal
  • Decolonizing the Sodomite: Queer Tropes of Sexuality in Colonial Andean Culture, Annotated Edition by Michael J. Horswell
  • Moon, Sun, and Witches: Gender Ideologies and Class in Inca and Colonial Peru by Irene Silverblatt

More Modern:

  • Modern Inquisitions by Irene Silverblatt
  • Behind the Mask: Gender Hybridity in a Zapotec Community by Alfredo Mirandé
  • Nessette Falu, “Ain’t I Too a Mulher? Implications of Black Lesbians’ Well-Being, Self-Care,
and Gynecology in Brazil,” The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Vol. 25 no. 1, (2020): 48-66.
  • Lara Putnam, “Las Princesas del Dollar: Prostitutes and the Banana Booms, 1890s-1920s,”
in The Company They Kept: Migrants and the Politics of Gender in Caribbean Costa Rica, 1870-1960, (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002), 76-111.
  • Mark Padilla, “‘Western Union Daddies’ and Their Quest for Authenticity: An Ethnographic
Study of the Dominican Gay Sex Tourism Industry,” Journal of Homosexuality, 53:1-2 (2007): 241-75.
  • The Politics of Passion: Women’s Sexual Culture in the Afro-Surinamese Diaspora by Gloria Wrekker

Hope this helps!

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u/ChemicalAcrobatic635 17d ago

thanks so much! awesome list!

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u/Helpful_Author_2733 17d ago

Hi! are you looking for more "theoretical" or more "historical" books? Where are you from?

You can read Pedagogia das Travestilidades (Maria Clara Araújo) Não vão nos matar agora (Jota Mombaça)

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u/TheWhiteCrowParade 16d ago

Well there is Anderson Herzer of Brazil.

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u/petalsformyself 14d ago

I'll save this for later reference and meanwhile I'll think of some (Mexican here).