In The Routledge Companion to Gender, Sex and Pop Culture in Latin America Aldama brings together essays that explore the intersections between gender, sexuality, and the creation, consumption, and interpretation of popular culture in the Américas. Front and center are issues of gender and sexuality, making visible how subjects who inhabit intersectional identities (sex, gender, race, class) are "othered", as well as demonstrating how these same subjects can and do, use pop-cultural phenomena in self-affirmative and progressively transformative ways. Topics include TV, film, pop and performance art, hip-hop, dance, slam poetry, gender-fluid religious ritual, theater, stand-up comedy, graffiti, videogames, photography, graphic arts, sports spectacles, comic books, sci-fi and other genre novels, lotería card games, news, web, and digital media.