¿Dónde está Julia Chuñil?

My hot take on the big-deal Evita revival in London (which I did see, located as it is at the intersection of my gay interests in musicals and Latin America) is that it weirdly implies that Evita wouldn’t have died so tragically if Perón hadn’t resisted Britain’s informal imperialism in Argentina.

Muy feliz de empezar a compartir el trabajo de muchos años. Este jueves en @cbamadrid.es presentamos Un país entre dos tiempos, un intento de mapear los debates y procesos políticos que han atravesado la historia española reciente, y de recuperar perspectivas útiles para el presente. ¡Nos vemos!

A statue, along the River Liffey in Dublin, of William Brown (1777-1857), “founding father” of the Argentine Navy who “defended Argentina against Brazil” according to the plaque on the base, written in English and Spanish. If Wikipedia is to be believed, this was in the Battle of Juncal in 1827.

Viet Thanh Nguyen, lucid as ever, on cultural memory, El Salvador, Marco Rubio, and the deeply interconnected histories of US imperialism, from Latin America to SE Asia. www.thenation.com/article/worl...

#Colloquium: On Wednesday, Thyssen@KWI Fellow @carlospescador.bsky.social examines Patagonia’s incorporation into Chile and Argentina through nationalist discourses linking past and present, genocide, and feminist critiques of geopolitical expansionism. 👉https://shorturl.at/Nn9jL

This essay was a blast to write! Thanks to @wendyallisonlee.bsky.social for recommending me as a contributor, to @dfmorgan.bsky.social for being a fabulous editor, and to @carlospescador.bsky.social for his expert feedback.

Hermoso video que armó el partido de Pepe Mujica como homenaje: youtu.be/8j4oARl0Zss?...

Embodied Sexualities. LASA preconference in San Francisco, CA, May 22, 2025.

Exciting (and long awaited) new book just arrived from José Miguel Palacios. Can’t wait to read.

Here in Essen for the next few months, in great (and very illustrious) company

The only time I ever saw him speak, in 2010, he gave a terrible speech about how European cultures were simply superior to those of the global south. But Conversación en la catedral still blew my mind. He was an independent thinker like no other, I’ll give him that. elpais.com/cultura/2025...

Reading my brilliant colleague @zeinmurib.bsky.social ‘s well-researched piece about repeated efforts by the gay and lesbian movement to sideline trans people (and the consequences of that sidelining today) is a great way to spend 5 minutes of your day today: slate.com/news-and-pol...

Seen at the entrance to my local subway station.

I’m no defender of Columbia (or Harvard for that matter), but if its administration is so quick to comply with Tr*mp and his minions, there’s little hope for resistance from less powerful institutions (like the one I work for, for example). www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

In which the US might* catch up to Chile’s SII, which has been doing this very thing for at least 20 years *I haven’t used this new IRS program yet so remains to be seen

Ya disponible en acceso abierto por Latin American Research Commons (LARC): _Sobre los principios. Los intelectuales caribeños y la tradición_, del gran Arcadio Díaz Quiñones (todavía recuerdo con mucho cariño el seminario que tomé con él sobre Martí en 2007). lasapress.org/site/books/m...

Dear academic friends, check out these fellowships. They’re super generous and it’s a great opportunity. Happy to answer any questions too (I will be a fellow there starting in April).

Coming soon 👀 link.springer.com/book/9783031...

Variaciones sobre la bandera chilena en el primer número de la revista Araucaria de Chile, editada en París por Volodia Teitelboim en el exilio, 1978 (la imagen de la portada es de Gracia Barrios).

Gracias, Marisa 🥹 El mundo de la cultura y la política despide a Marisa Paredes: “Se ha ido una leyenda” - elpais.com/cultura/2024...

Fascism was bad in the 1930s and 40s. Could it be better this time?

Mariah Carey 👑 homage at the bar around the corner from the apartment! #festive

Evaluation time! Don't forget to use @bschmidt.bsky.social's amazing tool to help your students see that these mechanisms of surveillance are fundamentally discriminatory and, as evidence of teaching quality, effectively useless! shorturl.at/To24L

Anyone else out there watching the queer masterpiece that is Somebody Somewhere? 🌈

When cool people bring cool books from Brazil

Hoy en cosas que no se van a leer ni en Elmer ni en LT: elpais.com/planeta-futu...

One of the feral cats that live under the bushes next to the Fordham Library. Is this the closest thing I have to a pet?

The four quadrants of Chilean literature (via Librería Pedaleo)

Dr. Wendy may have left JHU but luckily she’s still on RHOP 🫶

No sé ustedes, pero después de leer esto me dieron unas ganas feroces de leer a Dolores Reyes, Aurora Venturini, y Sol Fantin (a Gabriela Cabezón Cámara ya la había leído pero bien vale una relectura, por qué no) www.elmostrador.cl/braga/2024/1...

LASA 2025 with some of my besties: “Reponer lxs cuerpxs: Archivos, búsquedas y quiebres en la producción audiovisual chilena.” Nos vemos en San Francisco!

Un gringo (yo) en la radio (chilena): radio.uchile.cl/programas/se... (Y además sigo a los secos de León y Cociña, muero de ganas de ver su nueva película)

And thanks to the amazing translator Camila Matta, this Spanish version of my book is better than the English version 😊😊😊. Great to see all these new books about queer cultures in Chile! See Cristián’s thread below (and his book too!)

For those of you in NYC, don’t miss this event at Columbia on Wednesday 11/20 to commemorate the life of Antonio Skármeta. For more info: www.lenfest.arts.columbia.edu/fall-2024-ev...

Here’s another new book worth checking out, from my dear friend Chris Holmes, whose podcast @burnedbybooks.bsky.social consistently brings the 🔥 with interviews with fiction writers from the anglophone world and beyond. www.bloomsbury.com/us/kazuo-ish...

Un pajarite me cuenta que esto se viene pero YA ✨👏👏👏👏

Sobre las fiestas de los 80 en Chile, q fueron fundamentales para la formación de una generación de artistas cuir, y precursores de la escena artístico-cultural de los años 90 y 2000. Termina de enterrar el mito de la dictadura como una época de “apagón cultural” y es ultra mega recomendable 🔥🔥🔥 👇

Hi everyone! Great to see you on here. I teach at Fordham in NYC, and my research is on Latin American cultural studies, specifically queer Chilean literature & film (first bk), & now the aesthetics of fascism in Chile, Paraguay, & Argentina (hopefully second bk?!). Looking forward to connecting!

This weekend I went to a Renaissance choral concert, a production of Waiting for Godot, a showing of Paul Preciado’s Orlando documentary, and a launch of a new Sergio Chejfec translation. My weekends are rarely this exciting, but still, I gotta say, I love living in NYC.