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Cultural collection explores the realities of working-class Latinas, highlighting themes of loss and resistance.
Utopia! interrogates the realities of working class, contemporary Americana culture from a comical and surrealist lens; the collection interrogates the limitations of the American project and represents the realities of queer, working-class American life for Latinas. Following themes surrounding grief, anger, work, loss, and spirituality, among others, and the collection asks readers to sit with any and all of the wild possibilities of our own lives, or what things would be like if our histories had not happened as they had, if things could have been better and were not, and what we do with ourselves in the meantime. Interrogating structures of capitalism, race, sexism, immigration, and mandatory labor, Utopia! utilizes a fantastical and dream-like approach to push back against the structures of capital we have built our lives against and within.
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