Tortilleras Negotiating Intimacy

Well researched, carefully written, and highly original, Tortilleras Negotiating Intimacy is a transformative ethnographic exploration of women’s sexuality in Mexico City. This truly pioneering, sorely needed book privileges social relations above static conceptions of identity, highlighting lesbian, bisexual, pansexual, and polyamorous experiences in el ambiente. It is a key contribution to queer, women’s, and Latin American studies. Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes, author of Translocas: The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance

This rich and thoroughly captivating ethnography challenges US centered discourse on sexual cultures to explore how diverse sexual and affective practices such as polyamory, non-monogamy, casual hook-ups, and queer domesticity have been imagined and lived among different generations of queer Latinas in Mexico City. Through sustained interviews that are by turn candid and illuminating, humorous and tender, Russo Garrido’s text highlights how radical forms of friendship, love, community, and intimacy might function as world making practices of self and collective care. Juana María Rodríguez, author of Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures, and Other Latina Longings

An in-depth exploration into the changes in women’s sexualities in Latinx cultures, the volume examines marriage, polyamory, queerness, gender, love and friendship.'  Ms. Magazine