Liz Veronica Vicencio Diaz
Biographic Data
| ID | 3495450 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Liz Veronica Vicencio Diaz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Liz Veronica Vicencio |
| FAMILY NAME | Diaz |
| SIGNATURE | DIAZ L V V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Carleton University |
| ORCID | 0009-0007-2236-6547 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Putería, and discourses of whoring in Veracruz, México
This article focuses on discourses of la putería (whoring), a slang and a derogatory term originally associated with prostitution, but now expanding in Poza Rica de Hidalgo and Coatzintla in Mexico to describe working-class mestizos , particularly those who perform transgressive gender/sexual identifications and/or expressions. As a form of humour and gossip practices, la putería acts simultaneously as a tool of policing and resistance. This pape…
Diversidad Sexual in Poza Rica and Coatzintla, Veracruz, Mexico
This article is based on two months of ethnographic fieldwork done in 2017 in Poza Rica and Coatzintla, Veracruz, Mexico. I focus on the ways in which queer mestizos[i] contest, negotiate and mediate gender/sexual policing and how they challenge and produce/reproduce traditional gender roles and heteronormativity. I track these queer practices in contexts where institutions like family, marriage, church, and mass media, as well as cultural expres…
Living and navigating Ottawa as migrant Latina(s)
Yolanda Valentino
This article explores the drag performance of Yolanda Valentino, a Brazilian woman, who self-identifies herself as white before migration and as racialized post-migration. Yolanda also self-identifies as a drag queen, in Canada, and, more precisely, The Hot Room, a queer and queer-friendly bar and nightclub. I emphasize Yolanda's drag performance as it points to the larger issues that Latinas, as women from Latin America who share racialized comm…
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Yolanda Valentino
This article explores the drag performance of Yolanda Valentino, a Brazilian woman, who self-identifies herself as white before migration and as racialized post-migration. Yolanda also self-identifies as a drag queen, in Canada, and, more precisely, The Hot Room, a queer and queer-friendly bar and nightclub. I emphasize Yolanda's drag performance as it points to the larger issues that Latinas, as women from Latin America who share racialized comm…
Diversidad Sexual in Poza Rica and Coatzintla, Veracruz, Mexico
This article is based on two months of ethnographic fieldwork done in 2017 in Poza Rica and Coatzintla, Veracruz, Mexico. I focus on the ways in which queer mestizos[i] contest, negotiate and mediate gender/sexual policing and how they challenge and produce/reproduce traditional gender roles and heteronormativity. I track these queer practices in contexts where institutions like family, marriage, church, and mass media, as well as cultural expres…
Living and navigating Ottawa as migrant Latina(s)
Putería, and discourses of whoring in Veracruz, México
This article focuses on discourses of la putería (whoring), a slang and a derogatory term originally associated with prostitution, but now expanding in Poza Rica de Hidalgo and Coatzintla in Mexico to describe working-class mestizos , particularly those who perform transgressive gender/sexual identifications and/or expressions. As a form of humour and gossip practices, la putería acts simultaneously as a tool of policing and resistance. This pape…
Human sexuality (2 works) · Latin American and Latino Studies (2 works) · Queer (2 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Asian American and Pacific Histories (1 work) · Craft (1 work) · Dance (1 work) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity (1 work) · Diversity (politics (1 work)