PUTA LIFE - SEEING LATINAS WORKING SEX

In Puta Life, Juana María Rodríguez probes the ways that sexual labor and Latina sexuality become visual phenomena. Drawing on state archives, illustrated biographies, documentary films, photojournalistic essays, graphic novels, and digital spaces, she focuses on the figure of the putathe whore, that phantasmatic figure of Latinized feminine excess. Rodríguezs eclectic archive features the faces and stories of women whose lives have been mediated by sex work's stigmatization and criminalizationwasherwomen and masked wrestlers, porn st...[Llegir més]