Articles by Andrea Bolivar
Latinx Talk, 2022
https://latinxtalk.org/2022/04/11/shes-uhcomplicated-trans-black-latina-potentiality/
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Feminist Anthropology, 2021
Based on ethnographic research with transgender Latinas in Chicago, this article answers Susana N... more Based on ethnographic research with transgender Latinas in Chicago, this article answers Susana Narotzky and Niko Besnier's (2014) invitation to think "economy otherwise." I contend that in order to think "economy otherwise" we must think it queerly, and attend to feminist ways money animates possibilities beyond racist-cisgenderism. I bring together economic anthropology, feminist anthropology, and queer of color critique to queer money, specifically money earned from sexual labor performed by transgender Latinas. An ethnographic examination of trans Latina sex workers' lives reveals that money accessed through sexual labor is assigned a number of queer and contested meanings. Its' use is based in feminist ethics that eschew dominant economic logics in favor of building relations of care. It enables the creation of transgender bodies, and the development of queer networks of care with biological and chosen kin, in the U.S. and beyond. Trans Latinas, then, use money from sex work to support trans Latina ways of being that exceed the racist-cisgenderism. Sometimes, however, their uses of money reinforce racist-cisgenderism. I argue that the women's fraught uses of money reveal the complex intersections that sustain racist-cisgenderism, and how they are experienced and negotiated in people's everyday lives.
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Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, 2021
During the 2017 Women's March, there was a sea of "pussyhats, " worn in rebuke of the president's... more During the 2017 Women's March, there was a sea of "pussyhats, " worn in rebuke of the president's cocky statement that he can freely "grab" women "by the pussy. " Critiques emerged from various communities marginalized within the Women's March and the Pussyhat Project, by women of color, transgender folks, and sex workers. I engage with these important critiques. However, in an attempt to push the scholarly conversation beyond calls for increased intersectionality and inclusivity that I argue may rest on cisgenderist and transnormative assumptions in regard to pussyhats, I off er a trans of color critique of pussyhats based on ethnographic research with sex-working transgender Latina women in Chicago. Th e women, who have not received genital reconstructive surgery, freely and frequently talk about their pussies. Moreover, they creatively utilize their pussies to survive and at times thrive in Chicago's sexual economy of labor. Centering their experiences and epistemologies, I argue for a trans of color expansion of "pussy, " "woman, " and thus feminism. In response to the critiques, the Women's March banned the pussyhat aft er the fi rst year. I argue that the vague pleas for intersectionality and inclusivity and the ban on the pussyhat are based in binaristic and additive understandings of gender, race, and feminism. I hope to move beyond binaristic and additive assumptions and toward a logic of expansion that allows for unlimited possibilities for women, transgender people, and feminists. Furthermore, I argue that centering the resistance of sex-working transgender Latinas is imperative for feminist change in the post-Trump era.
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Chapters by Andrea Bolivar
Ethnographic Refusals, Unruly Latinidades , 2022
Edited by Alex E. Chavéz and Gina M. Pérez
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Queer Nightlife, 2021
Editors: Kemi Adeyemi, Kareem Khubchandani, Ramón H. Rivera-Servera
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Book Reviews by Andrea Bolivar
American Ethnologist , 2023
Book review of "The borders of AIDS: Race, quarantine, and resistance"
By Karma R. Chávez. Seattl... more Book review of "The borders of AIDS: Race, quarantine, and resistance"
By Karma R. Chávez. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2021. 264 pp.
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Essays by Andrea Bolivar
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Anthropology News, 2019
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Anthropology News, 2018
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NACLA Report on the Americas, 2017
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By Karma R. Chávez. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2021. 264 pp.
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By Karma R. Chávez. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2021. 264 pp.