Xandra Ibarra

24 May, 2012

Sordid Meditations of a Cyborg/Rasquacha Muchacha Cucaracha

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Exodus. Last chapter, last verse of Porn a la Mexicana In the end there was La Cucaracha and she was pronounced dead: dead and alive--alive and dead with a bud light. (response to Guillermo Nericcio Garcia's birth of a Latina Bombshell) Everyone has dealt with at least one in their space and some of us have had to deal with being called a roach, a cucaracha, vermin. Rumors of Mexicans and other unwanted pests, infesting and infecting, scurry across the

3 Aug, 2012

Stuck With You

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Nada me han enseñado los años, siempre caigo en los mismos errores otra vez a brindar con extraños y a llorar por los mismos dolores. -Jose Alfredo Jimenez Ten years in burlesque has provided me with an intimate knowledge of the political and emotional consequences of performing with/against the fictions structuring Mexican/Chicana female subjectivity.  Burlesque is touted as a primarily carnal art form associated with pleasure, sexual liberation and erotic agency.  However I have found that the same representational power that prompts

21 Sep, 2012

Audience Reactions to Seth Eisen and Xandra Ibarra

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