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This backfired in Brazil because in 1964, Brazil had a military coup and the dictatorship that followed lasted until 1985.

And even though Augusto Pinochet’s military dictatorship tried to claim her as a quaint, traditional poet in the 1970s and ‘80s, today she’s often celebrated as a feminist and an LGBTQ icon.

She was born in 1973 and grew up in the shadow of Jorge Videla’s dictatorship.

And Rulfo also pulls inspiration from la novela del dictador, a genre of fiction that interrogates dictatorships.

“Kiss of the Spider Woman” was published in 1976, the same year that he left Argentina in exile — and it was immediately censored by the military dictatorship it boldly critiqued.