I Monster: Embodying Trans andTravestiResistance in Latin America

Abstract

Since 2010, legal gains for LGBTQI communities in Latin America have exposed the contradictions of inclusion under a rights-based approach to sexual citizenship. Expanding neoliberal economies and multicultural incorporation has yet to resolve persistent inequalities or ongoing gender-based violence, in particular for trans and travesti populations in the region. Rather than depend on the symbolic and material protections of the state, however, many trans and travesti activists, artists, and performers argue that since the state is interested in normalizing sexual relations and gendered identities through legal recognition, it cannot be a source of identification, safety, or freedom. Focusing on recent work by Susy Shock (Argentina) and Claudia Rodríguez (Chile), this article demonstrates that “monstering” (to monster) has become a crucial form of epistemological resistance to neoliberal politics of inclusion and recognition in Latin America and of opening up new possibilities of imagining collective belonging.

Aproximación a la performance como estrategia política de resistencia al apartheid ocupacional: la situación de las personas travestis

“…Lo anterior, es en parte la causa y al mismo tiempo la consecuencia de que los cuerpos travestis estén sujetos a una violenta marginación social y económica (Pierce, 2020), y es que además de no cumplir con las expectativas que demandan las normas de género, tampoco cumplirían con lo que imponen las normas capitalistas, entendiendo que ambos sistemas están estrechamente relacionados, pues reproducen el mismo fundamento dicotómico que la matriz binaria, dando espacio a quienes reproducen y a quienes producen, y el resto simplemente no pertenece y es excluido.…”

“…Organa Feminazi expone: "Yo me maquillo, ante todo para festejar, me maquillo para callejear, me maquillo para seducir, (...) me maquillo para putear", así las artistas significan el maquillarse como una acción de incomodar a la norma, pero también de representar una configuración alternativa a la hegemónica. Asimismo, al referirse al callejear y putear es importante comprender las relaciones de clase y cultura que resultan constitutivas y distintivas en la identidad travesti, que trascienden desde la resonancia popular (Pierce, 2020).…”

Peche problems

“…The CVR employed the terminology of travesti, while the categories "transgender" and "trans" were more commonly employed in health science and HIV prevention. For additional distinctions between the categories transgénero (transgender), trans, and travesti, see Pierce (2020).…”

How Trans-Inclusive are Hackathons?

“…From the remaining, 25 are men (2 non-conforming, 4 trans, and 19 cis) and 13 are cis women. One participant identified herself as "travesti", a latin-american identity that is linked to womanhood, but has its own meaning and should not be translated [14]. The survey participants are identified as S1-S44.…”