Streetwalking

ANA-MAURINE LARA is a scholar, novelist, and poet. She is an assistant professor in the department of women, gender and sexuality studies at the University of Oregon, and is the author of the creative works Kohnjehr Woman, Erzulie's Skirt, and Sum of Parts.

"Ana-Maurine Lara offers us a meaningful invitation to consider the multifaceted potentials of streetwalking, and to witness how Dominican LGBTQ activists make resistencia that reorders our understanding of the queer politics of the everyday. Beautifully written and cogently argued, Streetwalking is an important contribution to queer of color critique." - C. Riley Snorton (author of Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity) "Streetwalking is the first book to document and analyze LGBTQ activism, theorizing, and life-making in the Dominican Republic. As such, it is inherently groundbreaking and innovative. But more than being the first, it is also a finely argued, nuanced understanding of the context-national, regional, and historical-in which this community asserts its contestatory vision of rights, citizenship, morality, humanity and collectivism." - Ginetta Candelario (author of Black behind the Ears: Dominican Racial Identity from Museums to Beauty Shops) "New Books Network: New Books in Anthropology" interview with Ana-Maurine Lara (New Books Network: New Books in Anthropology) Pride Month June 2021 round-up (Bookshop.org)

• Introduction: Where the Locas AreSection I: Street SmartsChapter 1: Christian ColonialityChapter 2: Sexual TerrorSection II: StreetwalkingChapter 3: ConfrontaciÓnChapter 4: Flipping the ScriptChapter 5: CuentosConclusion: On Silence TransformedAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex