A Lesbian Media Strategy: This Bridge Called My Back and Persophone Press

BY CATHERINE A. EVANS

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AMERICAN LITERATURE

DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS

2026

Towards an Inclusive Teaching of Latinx Art History in Pedagogical Reckonings: Decolonizing, Degendering, and Deconstructing the Western Art Historical Canon

BY ILA N. SHEREN S

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ED. GILLIAN HANNUM

VERNON PRESS
SEPTEMBER 2025

Breaking Down, Breaking Together: Xandra Ibarra’s Nude Laughing and the Violence of the Encounter

BY IVAN RAMOS

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EDS. ELIZABETH WEED, ELLEN ROONEY, DENISE DAVIS

DIFFERENCES: A JOURNAL OF FEMINIST CULTURAL STUDIES

DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS, VOL 36:1,

MAY 2025

Video Still of “Spictacle III: Virgensota Jota” (Cover Image) in GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies

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EDS. RILEY SNORTON, CHANDAN REDDY

DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS, VOL 31:2,

APRIL 2025

‘The Audience is my source of Hate:’ Xandra Ibarra and Fucking Whiteness in Sex on Stage: Writing the Body Politic

BY ERIN KAPLAN

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ED. FEONA ATTWOOD, ALISON J. CARR AND LYNN SALLY

BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING
2025

To Have and To Hoard: Xandra Ibarra’s Object Lessons in South Atlantic Quarterly

BY LETICIA ALVARADO

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EDS. JENNIFER NASH AND SAMANTHA PINTO

DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
JULY 2023

Objects/Anti-Texts of Sexuality: Critical Theories and Interdisciplinary Readings

BY ASPA CHALKIDOU AND EIRINI AVRAMOPOULOU

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TOPOS BOOKS, GREECE

2023

Queerness, Race and Digital Art in Dismantling The Patriarchy Bit by Bit: Art, Feminism, and Digital Technology
BY JUDITH K. BRODSKY
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BLOOMSBURY VISUAL ARTS
2022

Poking fun: Dildo Play and Camp Aesthetics

BY MAGGIE UNVERZAGT GODDARD

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WOMEN AND PERFORMANCE: A JOURNAL OF FEMINIST THEORY

2017

Public Notice for Fucked Peepo: Xandra Ibarra’s “The HookUp/Displacement /Barhopping/Drama/Tour in Queer Nightlife
BY JUANA MARÍA RODRIGUEZ
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EDS. KEMI ADEYEMI, KAREEM KHUBCHANDANI, RAMÓN H. RIVERA-SERVERA
MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY PRESS
2021

Identity, a Bureaucratic Nothing Trying to be Vital

BY XANDRA IBARRA

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WALKER ARTS CENTER READER

JANUARY 2020

Activism and Identity in the Ruins of Representation in AIDS and the Distribution of Crisis
BY JUANA MARÍA RODRIGUEZ
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DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
2020

Cry Bomba in The Cry of the Senses: Listening to Latinx and Caribbean Poetics
BY REN ELLIS NEYRA
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DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS

DECEMBER 2020

In Between Subjects: A Critical Genealogy of Queer Performance BY AMELIA JONES
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ROUTLEDGE PRESS
NOVEMBER 2020

Exhibitionist Tendencies: The Past and Present of Sexuality, Gender, and Race in Art in Saturation: Race, Art and The Circulation of Value

BY XANDRA IBARRA

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EDITED BY C. RILEY SNORTON AND HENTYLE YAPP

MIT PRESS

2020

La Chica Boom and the Pedagogy of Queer Failure
BY ERIN KAPLAN
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THEATRE TOPICS, VOL. 30, NUMBER 2,

JULY 2020

Living On All Fours: Latinx Performance and the Trans Human Turn in En Cuatro Patasin TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly 
BY BERNADINE HERNANDEZ
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DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS, VOL 6:2,
MAY 2019

Hurting and Hurling the Body in Feminist Performance in Contemporary Theater Review 

BY AMELIA JONES
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CONTEMPORARY THEATRE REVIEW, 28:3, 424-433

OCTOBER 2018

Deep Listening, Belonging, and the Pleasures of Brown Jouissance in Sensual Excess: Queer Femininity and Brown Jouissance
BY AMBER JAMILLA MUSSER
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NYU PRESS
NOVEMBER 2018

Abject Embodiment in Abject Performances: Aesthetic Strategies in Latino Cultural Production
BY LETICIA ALVARADO
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DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
MAY 2018

Forms of Opacity: Roaches, Blood and Being Stuck in Ibarra’s Corpus 
BY CHRISTINA A. LEÓN
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ASAP/JOURNAL, VOL 2:2
MAY 2017

Performance Review: Breathing material: Cassils and Xandra Ibarra in Los Angeles
BY HANNAH MANSHEL
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WOMEN AND PERFORMANCE: A JOURNAL OF FEMINIST THEORY

2017

ATHE Conference Plenary: A Spectacular Balancing Act

BY CHILDS, J., CRUZ, C.A., GOMEZ R., IBARRA, X., KHUMBCHANDANI, K., WAITES, C.

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THEATRE TOPICS Vol. 28.

2018

Training for Exhaustion

BY XANDRA IBARRA

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QED: A JOURNAL IN GLBTQ WORLD MAKING 4.2, MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS

2017

Spic(y) Appropriations: The Gustatory Aesthetics of Xandra Ibarra (aka La Chica Boom)
BY IVÁN RAMOS

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ARARA- ART AND ARCHITECTURE IN THE AMERICAS, ISSUE 12, 1-18

2016

“Queer Art / Queer Failure”
BY TINA TAKEMOTO
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ART JOURNAL 75:1, 85-88
MAY 2016

Aguas Calientes
BY XANDRA IBARRA
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TDR/THE DRAMA REVIEW,
VOL. 60, NO. 1 , PAGES 2-3. DOI: 10.1162/DRAM_A_00519
SPRING 2016

Ecdysis: The Molting of A Cucarachica
BY XANDRA IBARRA
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WOMEN & PERFORMANCE: A JOURNAL OF FEMINIST THEORY, 1-3, 2016

Implementing Grassroots Community Accountability Strategies in The Color of Violence: The Incite! Anthology

By Bierria, A., Carrillo O., Colbert, E. Ibarra, X., Kigvamasud’Vashti, Maulana, S.

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DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 250-266

2016

Drawing Complaint: Orientalism, Disidentification and Performance
BY TINA TAKEMOTO

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ASIAN DIASPORIC VISUAL CULTURES IN THE AMERICAS 1, 84-107
2015

Variations of “Frida”: Graciela Iturbide, Mario Bulletin, and La Chica Boom 
BY ÁNGELES DONOSO MACAYA
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TECHNOLOGY, LITERATURE, AND
DIGITAL CULTURE IN LATIN AMERICA
2015

“Spic Ecdysis (2014) de Xandra Ibarra, o las Mudas de la performance”
BY ÁNGELES DONOSO MACAYA
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FOTO-GRAFIA Y DISCURSOS DISCIPLINARES
2015


Viscous Pleasures and Unruly Feminism
BY JUANA MARÍA RODRÍGUEZ
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GLQ: A JOURNAL OF LESBIAN AND GAY STUDIES, VOL 21, NUMBER 1, 10-12
2015


La Chica Boom’s Failed Decolonial Spictacles
BY ALPESH PATEL
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E-MISFERICA 11.1 DECOLONIAL GESTURE
2014


Latina Sexual Fantasies, The Remix in Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures, and Other Latina Longings
BY JUANA MARÍA RODRIGUEZ
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NYU PRESS
JULY 2014


Untitled Feminism
BY JUANA MARÍA RODRÍGUEZ 
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NYU PRESS BLOG
2014


Performance Review of FML
BY ÁNGELES DONOSO MACAYA
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E-MISFERICA
2013


Queer Sociality and Other Sexual Fantasies 
BY JUANA MARÍA RODRÍGUEZ
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GLQ: GAY &LESBIAN QUARTERLY, 17:2-3
2011

Race and The Sex Industry: Race, Gender and the War Against Prostitution

EDS. XANDRA IBARRA, BHAVAN KARANI, J. KIRBY, AISHA SATTAR, ANDREA J. RITCHIE

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$PREAD Magazine, Vol 5, Issue 4,

Summer 2011