Beauty marks

The Latinx surfaces of loving, becoming, and mourning

Bibliographic Data

ID5147658
AuthorsJillian Hernandez (Ethnic Studies Department and Critical Gender Studies Program, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA, U.S.A., corresponding author)
Year2018
Volume28
Issue1
Pages67-84
Publication date2018-01-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueWomen & Performance a journal of feminist theory (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0740-770X • E-ISSN: 1748-5819
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/0740770x.2018.1430889
OpenAlexW2794400847
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited23

There are few conceptual frameworks for tarrying with racialized gendered Latinx surface beyond analyses of representation. One entry point could be the beauty mark, the made-up face, and objects/materials such as glitter, nails, and rolos (hair rollers) – those surfaces and things that bind me in memory to my grandmother, and, by extension, to other women in my family as well. This text enacts a performative and theoretical exploration of the ontological contours of femme Latinx beauty practice to craft a poetics about the relationalities, recognitions, and femme generations that these surfaces engender. It juxtaposes authoethnographic prose that conjures the body work of the author’s grandmother with analyses of cultural production by Latinx artists Patricia Zambrano, Mujerista Market (Salina Zazueta-Beltrán), @anythingforselenaaas, Zahira Kelly, and others to evoke how making beauty marks haunts us, makes us possible, and brings us together in becoming, love, and loss

Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Beauty · Craft · Literature · Performative utterance · Poetics · Poetry · Politics · Sociology · Visual arts · Art, Politics, and Modernism · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Latin American and Latino Studies

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