T. Jackie Cuevas is the author of Post-Borderlandia: Chicana Literature and Gender Variant Critique and the poetry chapbook Otherhood, USA. Cuevas is on the faculty of the University of Texas at Austin, cofounder of Evelyn Street Press, and a member of the Macondo Writers Workshop.
Cuevas joins the Book Festival to discuss JOTA: A Queer Latina y Latinx Anthology, which she coedited.
"JOTA: A Queer Latina y Latinx Anthology" is a landmark collection of over 70 queer writers and artists. Building on the foundation of "Chicana Lesbians: The Girls Our Mothers Warned Us About" (1991) and "Compañeras" (1987), "JOTA" shares a new addition to the queer Latinx literary and artistic canons with stories, poems, essays, plays, art, and music. "JOTA" arrives at a critical moment when political systems threaten queer communities once again—yet contributors now have more tools to resist. We will resist! "JOTA's" movement promises to illuminate generational shifts from fear and silence to bold and brazen declarations of identity, honoring the radiant visual and written stories of our ancestors of the past, present, and future.
