Queer / Body

TV Notas journalists hounded Ximena Cuevas for a glimpse of her girlfriend. Ximena’s girlfriend would have nothing to do with her pranksterish behavior and refused to partake in any interviews. At the time, I was visiting Mexico City, producing a Mexican–U.S. issue of FELIX: A Journal of Media Arts and Communication, with Ximena and others. Ximena phoned me early one morning and asked me to help her: Ximena and I posed as lovers in three different TV Notas issues. Her very public celebrity relationship as an out lesbian was a progressive act performed before the Mexican pop culture. Three installments where we eventually break up.