Publications
Books, Book Chapters, and Articles
With Her Machete in Her Hand: Reading Chicana Lesbians. University of Texas (2006).
“Our Queer Kin.” Co-written with Luz Calvo. Gay Latino Studies: A Critical Reader, Ed. Michael Hames-García and Ernesto Javier Martinez. Duke University Press. (2011).
“Do U Think I’m a Nasty Grrl?: The Apparition of Our Lady and the Embodiment of a Mujerista Theology,” Our Lady of Controversy. Ed. Alma Lopez and Alicia Gaspar de Alba. Austin: University of Texas Press. (2011)
“Latina Lesbians, BiMujeres, and Trans Identities: Charting Courses in the Social Sciences.” Co-written with Luz Calvo. Latino Sexualities. Ed. Marysol Ascencio. Rutgers University Press. (2010), 217-229.
“Aztec Princess Still at Large,” Beyond the Frame: Photographic Representations and Women of Color. Ed. Angela Y. Davis and Neferti Tadiar. New York: Palgrave. (2005) 197-206.
“Shameless Histories: Chicana Lesbian Fictions Talking Race/Talking Sex” Tortilleras: Hispanic and Latina Lesbian Expression. Ed. Lourdes Torres and Inmaculada Pertusa-Seva. Philadelphia: Temple University Press (2003), 258-275.
“Velvet Malinche.” Velvet Barrios: Popular Culture and Chicana/o Sexualities. Ed. Alicia Gaspar de Alba. New York: Palgrave/St. Martins (2003), 295-307.
“Memories of Girlhood: Chicana Lesbian Fictions.” Reprinted in Chicano/Latino Homoerotic Identities. Ed. David William Foster. Garland Publications, 1999
“Memories of Girlhood: Chicana Lesbian Fictions,” SIGNS: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 23.3, Spring, 1998, 644-681.
“‘A Duel of Wits and the Lesbian Romance Novel’ or ‘Verbal Intercourse in Fictional Regency England.’” New Perspectives on Women and Comedy. Ed. Regina Barreca. New York: Gordon and Breach, 1992, 123-33.
Book Reviews, Encyclopedia Entries and Bibliography
Review of The Gloria Anzaldúa Reader by Ana Louise Keating. Chicana/Latina Studies: The Journal of MALCS. 10.2: 218-221.
Review of Chicana Art: The Politics of Spiritual and Aesthetic Altarities by Laura E. Pérez, Gender on the Borderlands: The Frontiers Reader, edited by Antonia Castañeda, and Relocating Identities in Latin American Cultures, edited by Elizabeth Montes Garcés. Co-written with Luz Calvo. SIGNS: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 34.1, Autumn 2008 (218-222).
“Alabados.” Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States. Gen. Ed. Suzanne Oboler and Deena J. González. Volume 1: 48-49.Oxford University Press. Oxford University Press, 2005.
“Lotería.” Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States. Gen. Ed. Suzanne Oboler and Deena J. González. Volume 3: 18-19. Oxford University Press. Oxford University Press, 2005.
“Sexuality.” Co-written with Luz Calvo. Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States. Gen. Ed. Suzanne Oboler and Deena J. González. Volume 4: 110-116.Oxford University Press, 2005.
Selections from A Bibliography of Twentieth-Century Queer Chicana Fictions in Tongues Magazine, Volume 5, 2003-04. Bibliography available online at <http://www.chicana-lesbians.com>
Creative Writing
“Loving Lupita.” Teatro. Chicana/Latina Studies: The Journal of MALCS. Submitted, October 2010.
“Entre dos Luces.” Teatro. Jota 'zine. Volume 2.1 (2006), 28-30.
“Big One: An LA poem en two Jota Voices.” Jota 'zine. Volume 2 (2004), 5
“White Lace for Funerals” Tongues Magazine, Volume 4 (2004),
“A True Raza Love Poem.” Jota 'zine. Volume 1 (2003), 3-4.
“Irony.” Meridians: feminism ,race, transnationalism, Volume 3.1 (2002), 252.
“La Karla.” Voces: A Journal of Chicana/Latina Studies, Volume 2.1 (1998), 128-32.
“Debajo del Cielo.” Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, Volume 11.1 (1990), 44-45.