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Intervenxions is an online publication of TLP that features original writings, criticism, and interviews exploring contemporary Latinx Art, Politics, & Culture.
Exhibition Reviews
With Blinked Twice, Vani Aguilar captures the networks between Chicago, where they previously lived, and Los Angeles, where they are from and currently reside.
The Mexican artist uses transmigratory world-building and nonlinear expressions to dismantle reductive perceptions of Latinx art and explore the politics of identity.
Book Reviews
Peggy Robles-Alvarado’s book Burn Me Back transforms the scars of migration, colonialism, and family trauma into a series of ritual flames.
Get Fresh Books released a bilingual edition of Poet of One Island, a book of poems from Haitian-Dominican writer Jacques Viau Renaud.
With ‘Libertad,’ a coming-of-age story based in Honduras, Bessie Flores Zaldívar finds words where many can’t.
While in the United States there are particular ways of reading Blackness, when it comes to Latinx mixed-race people, this does not necessarily translate across hemispherically, causing slippages in readings of race.
Alford’s clarity about the relevance of Blackness to Latinx identity serves as a balm for feeling invisible to raceless Latina authors.
The Latinx Project's La Feria will feature more than 60 academic books.
Politics
Within the pages of Intervenxions Vol. 3, you'll find stories that frame history through the viewpoints of those left by the wayside by hegemonic narratives, that tap into people power, and showcase the value of our contributions.
Following last year’s Dobbs decision, three feminist scholars discuss its impact on women of color and the ongoing struggle for reproductive health.
A personal reflection on the life and legacy of the influential Cuban-American artist.
On the spatial imaginary of The World’s Hottest Tour.
While on a homecoming trip to Puerto Rico just before Hurricane Maria, a mother and daughter bear witness to the colonial reality of the island, foreshadowing many challenges that will follow in the aftermath of the storm.
Arts & Community
Beyond flesh and bone, the body is a repository of memory and experience, a terrain where survival, intimacy, and selfhood are continuously negotiated.
An evolution of the Puerto Rican parades in NYC.
It has been a year since queer Maya K’iche’ poet, visual, and performance artist Manuel Gabriel Tzoc Bucup visited New York from Guatemala.
Queer Studies
Revisiting the origins of Puerto Rican plena and the emergence of inclusive groups featuring women, queer, trans, and nonbinary musicians.
Coinciding with a solo exhibition at the Frost Museum, A body in transit, the Peruvian-born artist discusses their artistic trajectory and recent work.
The evolution of queer Latinx nightlife in Los Angeles, from backyard parties to lesbian bars, through the lenses of spatial entitlement and the brown commons.
Film & TV
Afro-Latinx Studies
Alford’s clarity about the relevance of Blackness to Latinx identity serves as a balm for feeling invisible to raceless Latina authors.
The ‘NEGRITA’ doc uses the racial descriptor as an entry point to discuss the lasting effects of colonialism in Latin America, the Caribbean, and its diasporas
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