Gloria Trevi

I thought this interesting and that I should write it down so that at some later point I can elaborate on it. I was writing a quick one page paper about how Gloria Trevi can be read through the notion of rasqauchismo and Chicano camp. Rasquache or that act of rasquachismo is making do with what one has. The bare essentials.

In an article by by Tomas Ybarra-Frausto, Rasquachismo:A Chicano sensibility, "to be rasquache is to posit a bawdy, spunky consciousness, to seek to subvert and turn ruling paradigms upside down. It is a witty, irreverent, and impertinent posture that recodes and moves outside established boundaries." Gloria Trevi encompasses these very things, though some may say she has made a brand for herself and her music and has become very famous for it, it is the fact that she has done this by never compromising who she is and by doing what she can with what she has.

By also looking at her through the idea of Chicano camp, she opens a new space where gender and sexual norms of Chicano culture can be contested. Not only does she sing about it but she makes sure her performances aknowledge these very notions by also including the gay latino community. For this I looked at Ramon Garcia's article, Against Rasquache:Chicano camp and the politics of identity in Los Angeles. Here Garcia describes camp, especially Chicano camp, as "more confrotational [than rasquachismo]; it presents the negativity of gender breakdown and sexual deviance..."

That is just some of what I wrote in my one page paper, but I feel that maybe more can be written about.