Raúl Luis Suarez’s Smile and The Ruthless Archive

By Patricio Simonetto Latin American Sexualities, Trans

As historians know, the archive is ruthless in preserving categories over time.

Reporting Abortions in Post-Conquest New Spain

By Kate Biedermann Empire and Colonialism, Latin American Sexualities

A sixteenth-century scribe recorded the sexual and reproductive behaviour of indigenous women in colonial Mexico.

Seeking Rights from the Left: Gender, Sexuality and the Latin American Pink Tide

By Elisabeth Jay Friedman Author Interviews, Latin American Sexualities, LGBTQ

How, when, and why left-leaning Latin American governments responded to the demands of feminist, women’s, and LGBT movements.

Macho Tips: The Erotics of the Mexican Body in a Gay Magazine

By Juan Carlos Mezo Gonzalez Latin American Sexualities, LGBTQ, Race and Ethnicity

The Mexican gay magazine Macho Tips (1985-1989) engaged with national ideologies of race and gender.

Making Histories of Bolivian Sexual and Gender Diversity Legible in the Twenty-First Century

By Nell Haynes Latin American Sexualities

In Bolivia, political allegiances and competing priorities have shaped movements for equality for LGBTI Bolivians, and thus, their histories.

Denounced: How Modernizing Mexico Criminalized Infanticide and Abortion

By Nora Jaffary Latin American Sexualities

In Mexico, colonial courts maintained relative silence about abortion and infanticide. Things changed in 1871.

Morality and Repression in the Making of Cold War Brazil

By Zeb Tortorici Author Interviews, Latin American Sexualities

The Right in Brazil conflated communist “subversives” and left-wing politics with sexual immorality.