Xiomara Verenice Cervantes-Gómez
Biographic Data
| ID | 368930 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Xiomara Verenice Cervantes-Gómez |
| GIVEN NAMES | Xiomara Verenice |
| FAMILY NAME | Cervantes-Gómez |
| SIGNATURE | CERVANTES-GÓMEZ X V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Chicago |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1581-646X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Sounds Like Politics: Cardi B and the Discourse of Español Ratatá
In this article we examine the political and cultural stakes of español ratatá , a term popularized by Cardi B to describe her noncanonical Spanish. Drawing on sociolinguistics, raciolinguistics, cultural studies, and Latinx studies, we analyze how her linguistic repertoire disrupts dominant ideologies of linguistic, racial, and ethnic purity. Through close analysis of Cardi B’s interviews and social media, we argue that her español ratatá functi…
Bottoms Up: Queer Mexicanness and Latinx Performance
Proposes a queer way to be in the world and with others Invoking queer aesthetics, ethics, and politics, Bottoms Up explores a sexual way to be with others while living with loss. Xiomara Cervantes-Gómez demonstrates how aesthetic representations of sex—namely, bottoming—function as allegorical paradigms, revealing the assemblages of violence that have constituted the social, cultural, and political shifts of Mexico and US Latinx culture from 195…
Where Blackness dies: The aesthetics of a massacre and the violence of remembering
This article focuses on the presence of ‘Blackness’ in Latin America, and the role/location of ‘Blackness’ in the necropolitics of Mexico, in particular, as a visual mode of aestheticizing violence in the aftermath of the 2010 Tamaulipas massacre of 72 undocumented migrants. As an act of remembering the victims, Mexican journalists, writers, and activists created a digital altar: 72 Migrantes. Focusing on photography and narrative as visual frame…
Paz'sPasivo: Thinking Mexicanness from the Bottom
This essay reads Octavio Paz's El laberinto de la soledad (1950) as a fundamental text that describes the tensions between modern expressions of Mexicanness and sexual behavior. Taking seriously Paz's anxiety about sexual positionality, in which he proposes that Mexico can either assume the position of the chingón (top; fucker) or the chingado (bottom; fucked), this article asks: What is at stake in localizing and reading national narrative liter…
Paz'sPasivo: Thinking Mexicanness from the Bottom
This essay reads Octavio Paz's El laberinto de la soledad (1950) as a fundamental text that describes the tensions between modern expressions of Mexicanness and sexual behavior. Taking seriously Paz's anxiety about sexual positionality, in which he proposes that Mexico can either assume the position of the chingón (top; fucker) or the chingado (bottom; fucked), this article asks: What is at stake in localizing and reading national narrative liter…
Paz'sPasivo: Thinking Mexicanness from the Bottom
This essay reads Octavio Paz's El laberinto de la soledad (1950) as a fundamental text that describes the tensions between modern expressions of Mexicanness and sexual behavior. Taking seriously Paz's anxiety about sexual positionality, in which he proposes that Mexico can either assume the position of the chingón (top; fucker) or the chingado (bottom; fucked), this article asks: What is at stake in localizing and reading national narrative liter…
Where Blackness dies: The aesthetics of a massacre and the violence of remembering
This article focuses on the presence of ‘Blackness’ in Latin America, and the role/location of ‘Blackness’ in the necropolitics of Mexico, in particular, as a visual mode of aestheticizing violence in the aftermath of the 2010 Tamaulipas massacre of 72 undocumented migrants. As an act of remembering the victims, Mexican journalists, writers, and activists created a digital altar: 72 Migrantes. Focusing on photography and narrative as visual frame…
Bottoms Up: Queer Mexicanness and Latinx Performance
Proposes a queer way to be in the world and with others Invoking queer aesthetics, ethics, and politics, Bottoms Up explores a sexual way to be with others while living with loss. Xiomara Cervantes-Gómez demonstrates how aesthetic representations of sex—namely, bottoming—function as allegorical paradigms, revealing the assemblages of violence that have constituted the social, cultural, and political shifts of Mexico and US Latinx culture from 195…
Sounds Like Politics: Cardi B and the Discourse of Español Ratatá
In this article we examine the political and cultural stakes of español ratatá , a term popularized by Cardi B to describe her noncanonical Spanish. Drawing on sociolinguistics, raciolinguistics, cultural studies, and Latinx studies, we analyze how her linguistic repertoire disrupts dominant ideologies of linguistic, racial, and ethnic purity. Through close analysis of Cardi B’s interviews and social media, we argue that her español ratatá functi…
Art (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Latin American and Latino Studies (2 works) · Latin American Literature Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Narrative (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Sociology (2 works)