Introduction / Grisel Y. Acosta -- Punks and hipsters : Latina outsiders remaking Latina identity / Grisel Y. Acosta -- "The child is bewitched" : syncretism and self-making in Cristina García's Dreaming in Cuban / Alexander Lalama -- Coritos for las de afuera / Carolina Hinojosa-Cisneros -- The journey of a sexy nerd : antes muerte que sencilla / Connie Pertuz-Mesa -- Just for standing out / Toni Margarita Plummer -- Activism is not a phase : testimonio of a radical Xicana Ph.D. / Irene M. Sánchez -- Playing chola : the discourse of subjects and subject-selves / Veronica Sandoval -- Caravan / Grisel Y. Acosta -- Ruidosas to the front : Alice Bag and the construction of Violence Girl / Sarah Dowman -- Loving Latinas : when questioning sexuality means questioning Latinidad / Sarah Paruolo -- Returning to the Bronx : gender, the outsider perspective, and Utopia in Juliet takes a breath / Grisel Y. Acosta -- Separación / Luis Lopez-Maldonado -- Catcalls to my brain / Nancy Mercado -- Between and beyond the mediated and the material in Teatro Luna's Generation sex / Melissa Huerta -- Permission / Stephanie Jimenez -- Excerpt from ch. 6 of The Lunasole class / Stephanie Laterza -- Parts of an autobiography / Carmen Giménez Smith -- Every woman keeps a flame against the wind / Kristen Millares Young -- Dear Barbara T. y Gloria E. : found auto-ethnographic letters to blacktina nepantla acrobats / Monique Guishard -- Haciendo caras : the alter-native illuminations of Laura Varela and Vaago Weiland's Enlight-tent / Cathryn Merla-Watson -- Living on the threshold : a Latina English professor / M. Soledad Caballero -- My English Victorian dating troubles / Analicia Sotelo -- What was the passion fruit named before the Europeans renamed it? / Aline Mello -- In-laws, outlaws / Anna Padilla-Davis -- Yo soy Boricua feminista, pa'que tu lo sepas! : notes from a Diasporican on performing outsider identity / Jessica N. Pabón-Colón -- Latina liberation : a conversation of soul, sacred well-being and community / Gloria Rodriguez -- Pa'que sepan / Vanessa "Bashi" Alviso -- The symbology of the derailed mind / Angela Gonzalez-Gartelman -- Poison and monsters / Jiovanna L. Pérez -- Stroke / Nova Gutierrez -- You either see me or you don't / Joanmaris Cuello -- My mother as the voice of Frida Kahlo / Analicia Sotelo -- Sounding la raza cósmica / Veronica Salinas -- Why a girl becomes a hardcore chica / Grisel Y. Acosta -- Dropping dimes / Diana Díaz -- Good enough / Nancy Méndez-Booth -- Tracing Elaine Summer's dance and performance lineage : performance notes / Jane Gabriels -- Belonging, chaos, blood, and tissues : assumptions about Latina writers in academia / Naida Saavedra -- Write like a girl / Claudia Rodriguez -- Conclusion / Grisel Y. Acosta.