Travar el saber: Travesti‐Centred Knowledge‐Making and Education

Abstract

This article focuses on what we call, following Argentinean thinker and activist Lohana Berkins, travar el saber. Travar el saber is travesti theorising; rooted in Berkins's conceptualisation of travesti as a political identity, it works to understand, question, and transform the tenets and practices that uphold and reproduce exclusionary dynamics. Our analysis draws on efforts taking place at the Bachillerato Popular Travesti y Trans Mocha Celis, the first high school created to meet the needs of travesti and trans students in Buenos Aires. The school seeks to create a travesti-centred transformative educational framework and praxis.

Mending the Divide: Lessons from LGBTQ+ Movements for Latin American Studies

“…This is particularly damaging as the region (and the world) deals with authoritarian governments and movements that mobilise moral panic in relation to gender and sexual dissidence and as queer people worldwide remain excluded from full citizenship. Further, this neglect reflects queer people's marginalisation in academia and education in general (Martínez and Vidal-Ortiz, 2021).…”