New Article: Revisiting Argentine Intimacies

Hello from Portland, where I’ve been attending TBA Festival at the Portland Institute for the Creative Arts. It has been amazing, and I’m still processing everything, so no words on that yet. However…

I wanted to send a quick note to share that I have a new article out in the brand spanking new journal Cusp: Late 19th-/Early 20th Century Cultures.

You can access the journal and my article on Project Muse, here (if you have institutional access—please download it there if you do!). If you don’t have institutional access, then you can download it from my website, here.

I take the opportunity to reflect on what I learned from publishing my first book, Argentine Intimacies (available here). I also contextualize some of what was going on with me as I first started to think about the project—why I wanted to study this random family in Argentina, for example. But also, the context in Texas in the early 2000s when I was in undergrad and then graduate school. And then I take a moment to think about the normativity/anti-normativity debate in queer studies, and how, maybe, it isn’t exactly the right framing for things.

I’m a fan of the genre of revisiting or reflecting on a previous publication, and I’m glad to have had the chance to do so here. If you are a fin de siècle person, what we used to call the debaucherous ones in grad school, I highly recommend the new journal—so share it with your friends, colleagues, and grad students. I’m on the board, and I’m hoping to encourage folks from non-English-speaking places/contexts to submit work. So this is an official invitation, too!