Sideways Selves: Travesti and Jotería Struggles Across the Américas

2026 Sylvia Rivera Award in Transgender Studies, The Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS), CUNY

How trans and non-binary networks engage in decoloniality across hemispheres.

A deeply informed, theoretically rich work of inquiry and critique, Sideways Selves learns from two communities of migrants as they contest their marginalization under the colonial regime of gender—colonial because, as PJ DiPietro affirms, Indigenous and Afro-diasporic conceptions of embodiment have been displaced by the E...