Visions of Transmerica: Neobaroque Strategies of Nomadic Transgression by Krzysztof A. Kulawik, and: A Body of One's Own: A Trans History of Argentina by Patricio Simonetto (review).

This article reviews two scholarly works that examine trans identity and activism in Latin America, focusing on aesthetic, political, and historical dimensions. Krzysztof A. Kulawik's *Visions of Transmerica: Neobaroque Strategies of Nomadic Transgression* explores how Neobaroque literary and performance practices disrupt fixed gender and identity categories across Latin America, emphasizing hybridity and transgressive selfhood. Patricio Simonetto's *A Body of One's Own: A Trans History of Argentina* offers a materialist analysis of trans embodiment, state violence, and activism in Argentina, highlighting how travesti-trans communities have resisted erasure through self-fashioning, public protest, and legal struggles culminating in the 2012 Gender Identity Law. Both works contribute to Latin/o American trans studies by revealing the complex interplay of cultural representation, biopolitical governance, and grassroots resistance shaping trans experiences and rights in the region.