Thinking figurations otherwise: reframing dominant knowledges on sex and gender variance in Latin America -- Grotesque spectacles: the Janus face of the State and gender variant bodies in Reinaldo Arenas -- Life is (more than) a cabaret: gender crossing and "trans" signification in contemporary cinema from Latin America -- Authorising subjectivity: eroticism, epidemia and the in/validation of bodies in Pedro Juan Gutiérrez's el Rey de la habana and Mario Bellatin's Salón de belleza -- Trans bodies, popular culture and (national) identity in crisis: Luis Zapata's La hermana secreta de Angélica María and Mayra Santos-Febres's Sirena Selena vestida de pena -- Scandalous embodiments, shameful citizenships: loca and travesti subjectivities in the work of Pedro Lemebel
