Estamos sedientxs de ideas, discursos, estrategias políticas y acciones que nos permitan llevar a la calle una verdadera critica al sistema sexo-género y al orden heteropatriarcal. Una critica transformadora que sea capaz tanto de contrarestar el avance de los discursos LGBT normalizadores y asimilacionistas como de devolver al lema despatologizador toda su pontencia, frescura y radicalidad. Todo ello en un contexto médico-politico en el que los borradores del próximo DSM apuntan hacia la penalización de aquellas identidades “trans” que no encajan en el binomio hombre-mujer ni en la heteronormatividad imperante. Pero también, en un escenario en el que las actuales políticas enconómicas y los recortes sociales ante la crisis hacen peligrar el desarrollo de una atención sanitaria integral para las personas trans que garantice el acceso libre a cirujías y hormonas.
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The Exception and the Rule (2006) /digital drawing/550 x 540 cm
Venimos del feminismo radical, somos las bolleras, las putas, lxs trans, las inmigrantes, las negras, las heterodisidentes… somos la rabia de la revolución feminista, y queremos enseñar los dientes; salir de los despachos del género y de las políticas correctas, y que nuestro deseo nos guíe siendo políticamente incorrectas, molestando, repensando y resignificando nuestras mutaciones. Ya no nos vale con ser sólo mujeres. El sujeto político del feminismo “mujeres” se nos ha quedado pequeño, es excluyente por sí mismo, se deja fuera a las bolleras, a lxs trans, a las putas, a las del velo, a las que ganan poco y no van a la uni, a las que gritan, a las sin papeles, a la marikas…
The title of this dossier honors the social activism and political philosophy of the coalitional project of decolonial feminisms. While those involved in this conversation have for the most part been located in geographical spaces regularly referred to as the United States and Latin America (particularly Bolivia and Mexico), the central question that motivates our solidarity—what does it mean, as Laura Pérez writes in her essay here, “to engage in decolonizing coalitions that take feminist queer of color critical thought seriously as central to the work of decolonization?”—is one that is necessarily posed between and beyond these reified time-spaces. The contributions to feminist thinking made in this dossier by scholar-activists working in and across the contexts of Bolivia, the United States, Korea, Japan, India, and France can perhaps best be understood as moving between the “post” and the “de” colonial; beyond the reification of our globe toward a version of what Gayatri Spivak has named planetarity.1
Edited by Marina Grzinic, Rosa Reitsamer, Vienna, Löcker.
This anthology presents and constructs a configuration of acting and fighting for New Feminism by feminists, lesbians and queers. What the editors are interested in is not only opening up this configuration to unknown histories, but also presenting new actors, agents and forces who do not talk only about unknown histories, but first and foremost re-articulate the very foundation of what the feminist movement is. In order to give new power to the movement, it was necessary to open up the history and present of feminism by introducing a certain break (implied by the word “new”), but also to enlarge the agendas of its emancipatory politics.