The panel opens with, Pets in the Porfiriato, by Carolyn Fornoff (Cornell University), which considers male anxieties at the turn of the twentieth century in response to the intimate relationships that women cultivated with their pets. Focusing on texts by Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera and Amado Nervo, she explores why small domestic animals figured as sites of heightened narrative concern for men in their observations about women’s sexual and political agency. Fornoff argues that women’s intimate, affective relationships with creatures like canaries and poodles were seen as dangerously excessive expressions of female desire. The critique of women’s affection for small creatures as sentimental, obscene, and immoral was used to discipline and redirect women’s attention back to men. Denisa Krásná (Masaryk University) follows with The War against Animals: Speciesism, Sexism and Classism. Analyzing two short stories from Natural Histories (2013) by Guadalupe Nettel, Krásná argues that these disrupt traditional anthropocentric narratives by portraying nonhuman animals as subjects with agency and subjectivity, capable of creating kinships and distinct cultures, resisting injustice, and expressing deep pain and grief. The paper analyses two stories that question the traditional Western portrayal and treatment of fish and cockroaches: “The Marriage of the Red Fish” and “War in the Trash Cans.” While the first intertwines sexism with speciesism as both the human and nonhuman females are “consumed” by their male counterpart, the second reveals the intersections of speciesism and classism as both the working class protagonist and the cockroaches are treated as “invasive species.” Francisco Tijerina (University of Washington St Louis) follows similar lines of inquiry in Moth Women and Other Forms of Devouring the Canon Tijerina shows that Verónica Gerber Bicecci’s visual poetry and haikus are engaged in important acts of rewriting and devouring a male-dominated canon. He shows that “Moth Women,” which was published in the seminal anthology of Mexican contemporary women writing Tsunami in 2018 ” is a visual rewriting of Semonides de Amorgo’s Types of Women.--via the figure of the moth that literally eats the most misogynistic parts of poems. She later uses a similar technique With Otro día... (poemas sintéticos), Gerber Bicecci rewrites José Juan Tablada’s Un día... (poemas sintéticos) and pollinates them with images sent in the Voyager Golden Record to focus on today’s ecological catastrophe. The panel closes with a markedly indigenous perspective on Mexican animal studies via the talk Among Beetles and Bumblebees: Human and Nonhuman Bodies Through Mè’phàà Ontology by Alethia Alfonso (Universidad Iberoamericana). Alfonso’s talk analyses his latest poetry collection Xùkú Xùwàá/ Entre Escarabajos (2021) by Hubert Matiúwàa, a key figure of Mè’phàà’s language, poetry and activism. In this poetry, insects, animals, plants and mountains liaise Mè’phàà’s ontology and cosmology with eroticism. Alfonso argues that in doing so, Matiúwàa proposes another taxonomy and arrangement for earthlings and another form of the postcolonial ontological concept sentipensar (thinkingfeeling).