With Blinked Twice, Vani Aguilar captures the networks between Chicago, where they previously lived, and Los Angeles, where they are from and currently reside.

We reached out to the veteran critics and asked them to reflect on the confluence of events that led to the creation of terms that have had such a lasting impact.

Leslie Martinez’s paintings embody the connection they see between the survival skills and ancestral knowledge inherited from living in the borderlands and José Esteban Muñoz’s theory of a queer utopia.

The Chicago-based multidisciplinary artist shares the inspiration behind his recent solo exhibition at the National Museum of Mexican Art.