Nepantla Squared: Transgender Mestiz@ Histories in Times of Global Shift

"[A] compelling contribution to how we understand trans and Latinx identities, urgently addressing the question of how gendered embodiment is conditioned by sociopolitical factors."-Marcos Gonsalez, Los Angeles Review of Books
 

"This queer Chicanx history project is everything such a project should be: a brilliant analysis with fresh and illuminating ideas and approaches, an unearthing of hidden trans stories, and an intellectual exploration of trans mestiz@ identity."-Norma E. Cantú, Norine R. and T. Frank Murchison Professor of the Humanities at Trinity University

"Nepantla Squared is a welcome and refreshing contribution to intersectional trans, queer, and feminist histories of resistant gender. Linda Heidenreich provides a new depth of context to famous stories of anti-trans violence and resistance, like those of Jack Garland and Gwen Araujo, showing how these are stories about colonialism, capitalism, and neoliberal economic policy. Heidenreich's writing is pleasurably readable and the book is insightful and original."-Dean Spade, author of Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law

"Historical, materialist, and timely, this book adds new important ways of understanding trans in different historical moments and through nonbinary mestiz@ indigenous roots and routes in the Americas."-Kale Bantigue Fajardo, author of Filipino Crosscurrents: Oceanographies of Seafaring, Masculinities, and Globalization