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Brown Trans Figurations Latinx: The Future Is Now A series edited by Lorgia García- Peña and Nicole Guidotti- Hernández Brown Trans Figurations Rethinking Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Chicanx/Latinx Studies Francisco J. Galarte University of Texas Press Austin Copyright © 2021 by the University of Texas Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America First edition, 2021 Requests for permission to reproduce material from this work should be sent to: Permissions University of Texas Press P.O. Box 7819 Austin, TX 78713- 7819 utpress.utexas.edu/rp- form ♾ The paper used in this book meets the minimum requirements of ANSI/NISO Z39.48- 1992 (R1997) (Permanence of Paper). Library of Congress Cataloging-i n-P ublication Data Names: Galarte, Francisco J., author. Title: Brown trans figurations : rethinking race, gender, and sexuality in Chicanx/Latinx studies / Francisco J. Galarte. Description: First edition. | Austin : University of Texas Press, 2021. | Series: Latinx: the future is now | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2020029777 ISBN 978-1-4773-2212-3 (cloth) ISBN 978-1-4773-2213-0 (paperback) ISBN 978-1-4773-2214-7 (library ebook) ISBN 978-1-4773-2215-4 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Transgender people—Political activity—United States. | Mexican Americans—Political activity. | Transphobia—United States. | Transgender people—United States—Identity. | Mexican Americans—Ethnic identity. | Sexual minorities—Political activity—United States. | Sexual minority culture—United States. | Queer theory. | Intersectionality (Sociology) Classification: LCC HQ77.95.U6 G454 2021 | DDC 306.76/8—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020029777 doi:10.7560/322123 For the three people whose love has sustained and comforted me: Mom, Dad, and Bernadine THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Thinking Brown and Trans Together 1 1. Dolorous Proximities of Race and Transsexuality: Reading the Gwen Araujo Archive 23 2. Examining Transphobic Violence and the Politics of Valuation: The Death of Angie Zapata and the Incarceration of the Hateful Other 47 3. Fleshing Out the Chicana/x Butch and Chicano/x FTM Borderlands 75 4. The Wound Makes the Man: Trans Figuring Chicano Masculinities 106 Coda: Reading with the X 129 Notes 139 References 160 Index 171 THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK Acknowledgments This book has its origins in my hometown of Brawley, California, where I came of age and dreamed of a life I didn’t think was possible. As a child, I dreamed of a life that now aligns with the trans life I live today. I grew up not understanding what transgender or transsexual was, and when I finally discovered multiple forms of transsexual and transgender individuals, nar- ratives, politics, and theories as an undergraduate and graduate student, my world shifted. This has its origins in the moment I began my transition, this was when I decided to recuperate and write the subjectivity I share with many others into existence. The book mirrors my own psychic and bodily transformations, a journey marked by fear, uncertainty, pain, loss, and grief, as well as pleasure, happiness, and the excitement of what could be. Many individuals and institutions have been instrumental in my realization of this project. In 2004 I took a risk and flew to the Midwest to begin graduate school at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign, where I encountered the excitement of intellectual inquiry and where the questions I asked were met with equal excitement. To begin, I must thank my adviser in educa- tion, Antonia Darder, who knew exactly how to support me when I didn’t know what I needed and who inspired me to always follow and cultivate my pedagogical instincts. I am grateful to Richard T. Rodríguez and Lisa M. Cacho, who mentored me in Latina/o studies; the conversations with them and their work laid the foundation for the kinds of questions I ask as a scholar. I was thankful to be continually supported by the Department of Latina/o Studies, the faculty, fellow Latina/o studies graduate and under- graduate students. While at the university I made long-l asting friendships with Judith Estrada, Gerardo Diaz, Abel Correa, Genevieve Clutario, and ix
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