Selected Essays and Reviews

Essays

"Glimpsing Angie Xtravaganza: The Trans Latinx Imaginary of Paris Is Burning" forthcoming in Camera Obscura 39, no. 3 (117) 

“In Defense of the Effete Superhero: Theorizing the First Queer Latinx Superhero, Extraño/Gregorio de la Vega” Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society, 7.1, Spring 2024

“Fantasies of Valentina: RuPaul’s Drag Race and the Performance of Queer/Trans of Color Spectacular Obfuscation,” Transgender Studies Quarterly, 9.4, 2022

“Piñata Drag: On Queer Latinx Quirky Aesthetics,” Post45 2022

“The Obelisk of Loisaida: Hauntings of Queer Puerto Rican Life in the Barrio” The White Review 2021

“Transmogrifying Virgens, Transmogrifying Selves: The Queer Inhumanist Transmogrifications and Aesthetics of Gloria Anzaldúa’s Light in the Dark⁄Luz en lo Oscuro,” ASAP/Journal, 6.3, 2021

“Paris Doesn’t Always Have To Be Burning” Public Books 2020

“Jane Austen and Whiteness” Literary Hub 2019

“Caliban Never Belonged to Shakespeare” Literary Hub 2019

“Speculating on Queer Pasts to Achieve a Queer Eternity” Catapult 2019

“A Brief and Uneventful History of Burlap” Ploughshares 2019

“Staging an Epidemic” New Inquiry 2018

“When ‘Good’ Writing Means White Writing” Electric Literature 2017

Reviews

“Review of Kristie Soares’ Playful Protest: The Political Work of Joy in Latinx Media” forthcoming in Revista de Estudios Hispánicos.

“Review of no existe un mundo poshuracán: Puerto Rican Art in the Wake of Hurricane” ASAP/Journal 2023

“Review of 100 Ways to Cross the Border” BOMB Magazine 2022

“Three Recent Books About Trans Latinx Lives,” Los Angeles Review of Books 2022

“Nowhere is a Place on a Map: A Review of Alejandro Varela’s The Town of Babylon” Protean Magazine 2022

“José Muñoz's The Sense of Brown” ASAP/Journal 2020

“Essay of Nepantla: An Anthology for Queer Poets of Color” The Los Angeles Review 2018

“The Universally Particular: An Essay Review of Alexander Chee’s How To Write An Autobiographical Novel” 3:AM Magazine 2018