id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_jptoexci4rh5fgj2a7btiaw7au Cymene Howe The Legible Lesbian: Crimes of Passion in Nicaragua 2009 14 .pdf application/pdf 7705 466 61 achievement for advocates in Nicaragua, the case was also a victory for sexual and human rights Aura Rosa was a very poor woman, even in the context of Nicaragua, the second poorest country According to sexual rights advocates, Aura Rosa was murdered not because she was having an activists and attorneys argued that Aura Rosa was murdered because she was a lesbian, one Aura Rosa's case as a 'hate crime' indexes her sexuality as fundamental. Historically, Nicaragua's social lexicon had an 'other' category of sexual subject: la cochona. According to Angelica, a lesbian and sexual rights activist with whom I spoke, Aura Article 204, Aura Rosa would have continued to 'live her life,' and her 'sexual option' as she Aura Rosa's murder; this constituted a new public manifestation of the category 'lesbian.' Sexuality activists challenged the juridical culture of Nicaragua, evoking the wellcirculated parlance and persuasions of human rights in order to do so. ./cache/work_jptoexci4rh5fgj2a7btiaw7au.pdf ./txt/work_jptoexci4rh5fgj2a7btiaw7au.txt