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JOTA: A Queer Latina y Latinx Anthology

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JOTA: A Queer Latina y Latinx Anthology is a landmark collection of over 70 queer writers and artists. Building on the foundation of Chicana Lesbians: The Girls Our Mothers Warned Us About (1991) and Compañeras (1987), JOTA shares a new addition to the queer Latinx literary and artistic canons with stories, poems, essays, plays, art, and music. JOTA arrives at a critical moment when political systems threaten queer communities once again—yet contributors now have more tools to resist. We will resist! JOTA’s movement promises to illuminate generational shifts from fear and silence to bold and brazen declarations of identity, honoring the radiant visual and written stories of our ancestors of the past, present, and future.

JOTA: A Queer Latina y Latinx Anthology is a landmark collection of over 70 queer writers and artists. Building on the foundation of Chicana Lesbians: The Girls Our Mothers Warned Us About (1991) and Compañeras (1987), JOTA shares a new addition to the queer Latinx literary and artistic canons with stories, poems, essays, plays, art, and music. JOTA arrives at a critical moment when political systems threaten queer communities once again—yet contributors now have more tools to resist. We will resist! JOTA’s movement promises to illuminate generational shifts from fear and silence to bold and brazen declarations of identity, honoring the radiant visual and written stories of our ancestors of the past, present, and future.

Editors of JOTA: A Queer Latina y Latinx Anthology

Rita E. Urquijo-Ruiz is a Mexicana/Chicana fronteriza queer educator, award-winning translator, writer, activist, and performer from Sonora, Mexico and southern California. She is a professor at Trinity University who teaches Mexican, Chicana/o/e/x, and Latina/o/e/x literatures, cultures, gender, sexuality, theater, and performance studies. She authored Wild Tongues: Transnational Mexican Popular Culture and has edited six books related to her fields of study. Her story “First Visit,” about being undocumented as an undergraduate student, is in the anthology: Somewhere We are Human: Authentic Voices on Migration, Survival, and New Beginnings, co-edited by Reyna Grande and Sonia Guiñansaca. Along with her dear friend and colega Dr. L Heidenreich, she co-authored the book Writing that Matters: A Hanbook for Chicanx/Latinx Studies, which received the 2025 Chicana Caucus Catrióna Rueda Esquibel Award from the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS).

Anel I. Flores fuses transfeminism, queerness and Xicanidad into multidisciplinary visual and literary art centering gender and body autonomy, joy and healing, for Latina/e/x BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, birthing bodies, women, and Gender Non-Binary kin. They aim to tell the story of queer worlds as they ARE not as they are perceived. Author of Curtains of Rain & Empanada A Lesbiana Story en Probaditas, Les Maestres, chapbooks La Fea and Behind the Bookbag. Flores is editor of Jota and I Love Us. Her work can be found in Xicanas, Camino Real, Fifth Wednesday, Infrarrealista Review, Entre Guadalupe y Malinche, and Sinister Wisdom. Their play Empanada has been staged internationally since 2002. Flores’ 30 year retrospective, I Am Home, exhibited at the Mexican Cultural Institute of San Antonio in 2024, following shows Nuestra Delta Magica, TransAmerican at the McNay Museum, Sor Juana Festival and MariconX. Flores’ awards include Mellon Foundation’s Democratizing Racial Justice, Catalyst for Change, OLLU Writer in Residence, PAR Fellow, Women’s Advocate of the Year, Nebrija Creadores Award, NALAC Fund for the Arts, and the Accion Women Inspiring Women Award. Co-founder of Queer Voices Collective, Queer Voices Speak, and LezRideSA, Flores served on the San Antonio Mayor’s LGBTQIA Task Force, as Co-Reviewer and Committee Member of El Mundo Zurdo. They were also a board member for Macondo Writers Workshop, Esperanza Peace and Justice Center, San Antonio Youth Literacy, Pride Center San Antonio, and currently serve Infrarrealista Review. Flores is completing their graphic memoir, Painted Red. For Booking: www.anelflores.com @aneliflores

T. Jackie Cuevas’ poetry has been published in Sinister Wisdom, Stone Canoe, Ixua Review, and a chapbook called Otherhood, U.S.A. from Tanto Tinto Press. Her testimonio writing appears in the introduction to the third edition of Gloria Anzaldúa’s Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (Aunt Lute, 2007). Cuevas co-founded Evelyn Street Press, belongs to the Macondo creative writing workshop founded by Sandra Cisneros, and teaches at UTSA.