Join Heidi Schumacher and Ellen Jarosz as they interview Dr. Luis Esparza about his recent article published in Border-Lines, “Desde La Preferia de La Milpa: Testimonios de Joteria Rural de Los Ranchos y Pueblos del Sur de Mexico.” 

To learn more information about Luis, visit this episode's ⁠website⁠.  

Read a transcript of this episode. 

Thanks to Kayla Wilkins for production assistance, and to SmallPox for our theme music! 

Edited by Ellen Jarosz.

Learn more:  

• CSUN Queer Studies Program  
• CSUN University Library 
• Circa Queer Histories Festival 

More Reading:

• Guillermo Núñez Noriega, Just Between Us: An Ethnography of Male Identity and Intimacy in Rural Communities of Northern Mexico. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 2014. Find it at your local library | Buy a copy 
• Works by Xamuel Bañales Find them at your local library 
• Works by Anita Tijerina-Revilla Find them at your local library | Buy copies
• Richard S. Trexler, Sex and Conquest: Gendered Violence, Political Order, and the European Conquest of the Americas. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1997. Find it at your local library | Buy a copy
• Michael Roy Hames-Garcia, Gay Latino Studies: A Critical Reader. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011. Find it at your local library | Buy a copy
• Works by Peter Herman Sigal Find them at your local library
• Federico Garza Carvajal. Butterflies Will Burn: Prosecuting Sodomites in Early Modern Spain and Mexico. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2021. Find it at your local library | Buy a copy

Recommended Films, Series, and more: 

• Dance of the 41 (Netflix) 
• The Secret of the River (Netflix)