Conjured Bodies: Queer Racialization in Contemporary LatinidadIs Latinidad a racial or an ethnic designation? Both? Neither? The increasing recognition of diversity within Latinx communities and the well known story of shifting census designations have cast doubt on the idea that Latinidad is a race, akin to white or Black. And the mainstream media constantly cover the browning of the United States, as though the racial character of Latinidad were self evident. Many scholars have argued that the uncertainty

With a focus on self-care

and queer love against the backdrop of the 1950s rural South

While the female nude has long played a conspicuous role in western iconography

and gender studies to show that transgender people

Unaware their fates are already entwined

But Laura Grappo is less sanguine

I was hooked from page one

Putnam's Sons (May 21

) will be his first boyfriend

neurodivergent person reflected back at her—and in them

and surfaces a singular history of mid-century queer New York

This metaliterary end-of-the-world novel is "a Gen-X queer girl's version of the bohemian counter-canon" (New York Times)