Trans Queer Equality

Before Night Falls

"Writing as Dissidence" in Before Night Falls (2000), dir. Julian Schnabel

TRAILER



Freedom is a Nation: Identification Papers, Mariel, and the "Legible" Queer Body



Johnny Depp in Before Night Falls, and Gender Trouble



Johnny Depp as Bon Bon




Border Crossings: From Trans to Transnational Bodies Politic

Cobra and the Latin American Baroque

(Against) Origins

























Narrative Structures of the "Latin American Baroque"
Severo Sarduy, Cobra (1972 [1995])

Part I

Lyrical Theater of Dolls

GROUP I:
White Dwarf 20

To God I Dedicate this Mambo 46

The Conversion 57

GROUP II
¿Qué tal? 69

Part II

The Initiation 75

Eat Flowers! 91

GROUP III:

For the Birds 104

White 120

Indian Journal 129

Trans Violence

2 Transgender Men Assaulted at Local Bar

Writing Tips

For those in the middle of the paper/essay crunch, Robert Rushing's site offers useful information about papers, and the writing life.

Apropos of Severo Sarduy's Cobra

I. Media Event















Lizard Transvestism?

How does the article "gender" 'boy' lizards?

How does it make diversity anthropomorphic?


II. Commodification of Gender?