Xiomara Cervantes-Gómez, author of Bottoms Up: Queer Mexicanness and Latinx Performance (NYU Press, 2024), writes and speaks on ethics, race, and sexual cultures at the interstices of performance, philosophy, and queer of color theory. In 2021, her article, "Paz's Pasivo: Thinking Mexicanness from the Bottom," was awarded the Premio Sylvia Molloy for Best Article in the Humanities, by the Latin American Studies Association Sexualities Studies Section.
As a Latina transdisciplinary theorist, her ongoing research centralizes aesthetics of race, transgender bodies, trauma and loss in contemporary Latin America and the United States. Cervantes-Gómez is currently Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.