Journal articleQed · September 1, 2024
Deviant Darkrooms examines the processes of Ajamu X and Rotimi Fani-Kayode, two Black queer London-based photographers, showing that their experiments with darkrooms develop an erotic method to challenge what Black feminist scholar Aliyyah Abdur-Rahman des ...
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Journal articleGender and History · November 1, 2010
'Imagining Cihuacoatl' examines the conundrum of the multiple identities of the 'serpent woman', a Mexica goddess, analysing her relationship with other goddesses in the Nahua pantheon. She and the others were marked in a particular sexualised and gendered ...
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Journal articleEthnohistory · December 1, 2007
This article provides a method for interpreting the place of sexuality in texts that defy analysis. The author uses one source, the Florentine Codex, a large and complex bilingual Nahuatl and Spanish document, to decipher some elements about cross-dressing ...
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Journal articleLatin American Perspectives · January 1, 2002
Elites among the Maya considered passivity in males feminine and viewed the vanquished warrior as symbolically if not actually passive. The Maya nobles, lords, and priests at the time of the Spanish conquest used this notion of activity and passivity to as ...
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