Join editors Rita E. Urquijo-Ruiz, Anel I. Flores, and anthology contributors for the launch of JOTA: A Queer Latina y Latinx Anthology—a landmark collection bringing together over 70 queer writers and artists in bold defiance and radical celebration.

We are the queers your mother warned you about. Building on the legacy of Chicana Lesbians: The Girls Our Mothers Warned Us About (1991) and Compañeras (1987), JOTA arrives at a critical moment when political systems once again threaten queer communities. But this time, we have more tools to resist. We will resist!

This collection illuminates the generational shift from fear and silence to bold and brazen declarations of identity. Through stories, poems, essays, plays, art, and music, JOTA honors the radiant visual and written stories of our ancestors—past, present, and future—telling the story of queer worlds as they ARE, not as they are perceived.

Come celebrate this vital addition to the queer Latinx literary and artistic canons. Witness the power of wild tongues speaking truth, of bodies claiming space, of communities building worlds where we not only survive but thrive. This is artivism in action—art as emergency exit from systems of violence, literature as ancestral alchemy.

We are here. We are queer. And yes, we are exactly who your mother warned you about.

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