"Between Utopian Longings and Everyday Failures": Imagining a Latin American Cuir Future

At present, the figure of the muxe occupies a queer position trapped between narratives of death and life that reaffirm both a notion of straight time and a state of coloniality. Through Guadalupe (2012), a graphic novel by the Brazilian poet Angélica Freitas and the cartoonist Odyr Bernardi, and the Mexican film Carmín tropical (2014) by Rigoberto Perezcano, I explore the possibility of a Latin American queer future that envisions other...