Introduction. Unsettling comforts : notes on language, politics, and sex/sexuality in a transnational context -- Reimagining the archives of femininity and sexuality. Sexing Guadalupe in transnational double crossings -- Gender parody, political satire, and postmodern rancheras : Astrid Hadad's "heavy nopal" aesthetics -- Fue en un cabaret : nation, melodrama, gender, and sexuality in contemporary Mexican performance -- Chicana and Mexicana queer performative interventions. Nao Bustamante's "bad-girl" aesthetics -- Ximena Cuevas's critical collages -- Transtortilleras : political cabaret in the twenty-first century