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Crossing the Lines: Graphic (Life) Narratives and Co-Laborative Political Transformations
- Biography
- University of Hawai'i Press
- Volume 32, Number 1, Winter 2009
- pp. 173-189
- 10.1353/bio.0.0083
- Article
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Jaime Cortez's Sexile frames the experiences of Cuban émigré and transgender activist Adela Vasquez in a comic book that shows how identities are engendered in a matrix of cultural conventions, sexual exchanges, and acts of self-invention, thus illustrating the interrelations between acts of self-fashioning and the work of social transformation.