Ana Sofia Lara Libri

Honorable Mention, Isis Duarte Book Prize (Latin American Studies Association​) Streetwalking: LGBTQ Lives and Protest in the Dominican Republic is an exploration of the ways that lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer persons exercise power in a Catholic Hispanic heteropatriarchal nation-state, namely the Dominican Republic. Lara presents the specific strategies employed by LGBTQ community leaders in the Dominican Republic in their struggle for subjectivity, recognition, and rights. Drawing on ethnographic encounters, film and video, and interviews, LGBTQ community leaders teach readers about streetwalking, confrontación, flipping the script, cuentos, and the use of strategic universalisms in the exercise of power and agency. Rooted in Maria Lugones's theorization of streetwalker strategies and Audre Lorde's theorization of silence and action, this text re-imagines the exercise and locus of power in examples provided by the living, thriving LGBTQ community of the Dominican Republic.

This collection of poetry by Ana Sofía Lara describes emotions regarding many different aspects of love and relationships. There is some anger and sadness, and some logical approaches to the difficulties of relationships and break ups. The poems capture the emotions of the author discussing lost love, unrequited love and love of a person that they know will never be reciprocated. New relationships, existing relationships and relationships that she wishes could happen but maybe never will. Poems about confidence, self-esteem and learning to understand yourself and your feelings, add to the collection too. Powerful poems about emotional cries for help and support for other people make this collection both hard to read, and a joy at the same time."