In Abject PerformancesampnbspLeticia Alvarado draws out the irreverent disruptive aesthetic strategies used by Latino artists and cultural producers who shun standards of respectability that are typically used to conjure concrete minority identities. In place of works imbued with pride redemption or celebration artists such as Ana Mendieta Nao Bustamante and the Chicano art collective known as Asco employ negative affectsshame disgust and unbelongingto capture experiences that lie at the edge of the mainstream inspirational Latinocentered social justice struggles. Drawing from a diverse expressive archive that ranges from performance art to performative testimonies of personal faithbased subjection Alvarado illuminates modes of community formation and social critique defined by a refusal of identitarian coherence that nonetheless coalesce into Latino affiliation and possibility.