Sarah Luna
Biographic Data
| ID | 3750638 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah Luna |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah |
| FAMILY NAME | Luna |
| SIGNATURE | LUNA S |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Lubricating Violence with Pleasure in Mexico City
This article charts forms of pleasure activism in Latin America that speak to both the futures of lesbian feminism and the ways in which pleasure pedagogy can lubricate violence. In the wake of what Gayle Rubin and Jack Halberstam called the “border wars” within feminist and lesbian movements over the inclusion of trans people and sex workers, I conducted sixteen months of research in Mexico City in 2021–24 among activists, artists, and pleasure …
Sex Hotels and Squirting Workshops
In the context of a system in which cis men's pleasure has been prioritized and pleasure has been presumed to operate within a strict gender binary, this ethnographic study asks what spaces and practices of queer pleasure have emerged in Mexico City. This article examines settings in which sexual pleasure is pursued, purchased, and weaponized, that is to say, valued in different ways. It first examines sex hotels and other spaces that, although h…
Love in the Drug War
Sex, drugs, religion, and love are potent combinations in la zona, a regulated prostitution zone in the city of Reynosa, across the border from Hidalgo, Texas. During the years 2008 and 2009, a time of intense drug violence, Sarah Luna met and built relationships with two kinds of migrants, women who moved from rural Mexico to Reynosa to become sex workers and American missionaries who moved from the United States to forge a fellowship with those…
Sex Hotels and Squirting Workshops
In the context of a system in which cis men's pleasure has been prioritized and pleasure has been presumed to operate within a strict gender binary, this ethnographic study asks what spaces and practices of queer pleasure have emerged in Mexico City. This article examines settings in which sexual pleasure is pursued, purchased, and weaponized, that is to say, valued in different ways. It first examines sex hotels and other spaces that, although h…
Love in the Drug War
Sex, drugs, religion, and love are potent combinations in la zona, a regulated prostitution zone in the city of Reynosa, across the border from Hidalgo, Texas. During the years 2008 and 2009, a time of intense drug violence, Sarah Luna met and built relationships with two kinds of migrants, women who moved from rural Mexico to Reynosa to become sex workers and American missionaries who moved from the United States to forge a fellowship with those…
Sex Hotels and Squirting Workshops
In the context of a system in which cis men's pleasure has been prioritized and pleasure has been presumed to operate within a strict gender binary, this ethnographic study asks what spaces and practices of queer pleasure have emerged in Mexico City. This article examines settings in which sexual pleasure is pursued, purchased, and weaponized, that is to say, valued in different ways. It first examines sex hotels and other spaces that, although h…
Lubricating Violence with Pleasure in Mexico City
This article charts forms of pleasure activism in Latin America that speak to both the futures of lesbian feminism and the ways in which pleasure pedagogy can lubricate violence. In the wake of what Gayle Rubin and Jack Halberstam called the “border wars” within feminist and lesbian movements over the inclusion of trans people and sex workers, I conducted sixteen months of research in Mexico City in 2021–24 among activists, artists, and pleasure …
History (2 works) · Pleasure (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Queer (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Church work (1 work) · Context (archaeology (1 work) · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control (1 work) · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance (1 work)