This article argues that Espiritismo Cruzado practice is comprised of fluid dynamics that disrupt notions of discrete entities. The disruption of clear-cut lines means that Espiritismo Cruzado is fertile ground for creative and generative ambiguity. This ambiguity disrupts the boundaries between forms of religiosity and different religious actors, and in doing so both disrupts and reinforces broader frameworks of race and gender. My examination of Espiritismo Cruzado, a Cuban religious tradition based on communication with spirits of the dead, demonstrates how the practice's ambiguity can emerge through instances of both convergence and fractures in relationships between spirits and practitioners. Convergences and conflicts emphasize concerns regarding beauty, race, and sexuality and how spirits and practitioners are implicated in the experiences of one another. Alongside these innovations, however, practice can often end up reifying overdetermined tropes of racialized and gendered figures in the wider popular Cuban imaginary. This article highlights how the mixedness that Espiritismo Cruzado offers is neither a straightforwardly liberatory politics of enablement nor exclusively one of constraint but rather a complicated nexus of the two.

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模棱两可的鼻子和女性化的矫揉造作：在古巴精神主义中协商种族和性别的界限

本文认为，Espiritismo Cruzado实践由流体动力学组成，破坏了离散实体的概念。清晰线条的中断意味着Espiritismo Cruzado是创造性和生成性模棱两可的沃土。这种模糊性破坏了宗教形式和不同宗教行为者之间的界限，这样做既破坏了又加强了更广泛的种族和性别框架。我对Espiritismo Cruzado的考察，一种基于与死者灵魂交流的古巴宗教传统，展示了这种做法的模棱两可是如何通过灵魂与从业者之间的关系的融合和破裂而出现的。趋同和冲突强调对美、种族和性的关注，以及精神和从业者如何与彼此的经历相关联。然而，除了这些创新之外，实践往往最终会在更广泛流行的古巴想象中具体化种族化和性别化人物的过度确定的比喻。这篇文章强调了Espiritismo Cruzado所提供的混合性既不是一种直接的解放政治，也不是一种限制性的政治，而是两者的复杂联系。