Wonder Woman, Pancho Villa, and the Shifting Rio Grande: Transnational jotx Identity, Desire, Pleasure, and Death on the El Paso/Juárez Border

What was I thinking? I shudder when I think about the outfits I wore to the Old Plantation, the largest and most popular gay bar in El Paso. I actually felt like a queer Chicana superhero—the joto reincarnation of Wonder Woman. Like Wonder Woman’s buttoned-down alter ego, Diana Prince, I had to dress conservatively in public because of the heteropatriarchal praxis of my hometown, El Paso, and my family home environment, which included my Protestant stepfather. That notwithstanding, my best friend would pick me up; we made up stories about heterosexual bars for our parents—particularly our mothers—about