Ibarra has attracted the attention of various scholars of performance, gender, and race. Juana María Rodríguez, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley writes about Xandra Ibarra's performance and the erotics of the U.S./ Mexican border in her book Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures and Other Latina Longings and in her essay "Viscous Pleasures and Unruly Feminisms" in GLQ.Rodríguez, Juana María. "Queer Sociality and Other Sexual Fantasies." Duke University Press: GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian & Gay Studies, vol. 17, no. 2/3, pp. 331-348, 2009, muse.jhu.edu/article/437415/pdf. Accessed 16 Feb. 2017.
