Finally started the new Judith Butler book, and even in the first chapter, the contrast with Jules Gill-Peterson's book is clear - one looks at Latin America and sees the panics around gender mobilized by Bolsonaristas, by evangelical opponents to the Colombian peace deal, etc. (aka, a large part of the current political outlook in the region - I'm guessing Milei only goes unmentioned because the book was already going to press), the other only sees a romantic colonial utopia of sexual freedom. One does their research, the other makes errors that would mean a failing grade if she was an undergraduate student. One makes a major intervention in our political moment, the other is an intellectual fraud