[7] Spictacles, a term coined by Ibarra, "mixed and repurpose traditional Mexican iconography alongside racist tropes within the erotic and sensual vocabulary of burlesque.

As the performance progresses, Ibarra sheds more and more items of clothing, in the tradition of burlesque, until she dons nothing but her pasties and a Tapatío bottle attached to a strap-on, which she then uses to cum on the tortilla before consuming it.

"[9] In the traveling art exhibition, XicanX: New Visions, curated by Dos Mestizx (Suzy González and Michael Menchaca) included Ibarra's La Tortillera (2004) video.

[13] She juxtaposes the rumored death of Lupe Vélez with the life of La Chica Boom "to illuminate how performing racially perverse material often fails because it is read and embodied as reality by (white) audiences".

[16][17] Performance studies scholar Juana María Rodriguez examines the video to argue that "feminism also needs to be about imagining a sexual politics that does not require the abandonment of fun and pleasure.

"[16][17] In her photo essay/series Spic Ecdysis (2014) published and featured on the cover of Women and Performance Journal, Ibarra aligns herself with the figure of the cockroach and "dwells within the limits given—showing the false promise of sheer transformation."

[19] Her experience of this cycle further demonstrated " the precarity of queer failure and the psychic exhaustion that accompanies the embodiment of racial and sexual abjection", resembling the cockroach as a disturbing and "enduring threat to the purity of home and nation".

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.

[8] Ramos writes about the ways La Chica Boom appropriates and plays with the stereotypes of Mexicans as unsanitary, obnoxiously flavorful, and over sexualized, in order to dismantle them.