Intro -- Contents -- Foreword: When Butterflies Are Red: Mariposa Literary Activism - Maythee Rojas -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: About Retablos, About Mariposa Memory -- Self-Portraits -- The Truman Capote Aria -- Confessions of a Gay Catholic Boy -- Orphans in the Terrorist World -- Easter Rock: 1983 -- Memory Lessons, Memory Lesions -- Studies -- Andrés Montoya: The Ice Worker Still Sings -- The Poet Ai: An Appreciation -- Beloved Jotoranos -- Lullaby from Thomas James -- Roxana's Melody -- Speeches -- To the Writer, to the Activist, to the Citizen -- The Gay Brown Beret Suite -- Trinity -- Toward a Mariposa Consciousness. |