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Comunicado del grupo transfeminista antirracista de Barcelona

El libro “Jornades Radical-ment feministes”, publicado en relación a las Jornadas de junio de 2016 y, que recopila las memorias del encuentro con la intención de continuar “escribiendo la historia feminista”, es una de las muchas violencias que diariamente experienciamos las personas racializadas y migrantes en el contexto local. Todavía hoy, después de décadas de luchas y críticas al feminismo blanco occidental, nos encontramos en la misma situación que ha sido cuestionada, donde la historia se escribe borrándonos. En la historia colonial, parte del sistema capitalista y heteropatriarcal, está inscrita la ceguera europea, a pesar del origen geográfico e intelectual del concepto “raza” en Europa. ¿Por qué el racismo y los procesos de racialización que organizan la segregación europea se silencian? ¿Qué es lo que las feministas blancas occidentales tendrían que cuestionarse si realmente nos escucharan?[…]

Concerning my and our work in Eurocentric academia, to rethink Transgender studies, trans* politics and activism in relation to decoloniality, the text focuses on body-politics, knowledge production and trans* imaginary in the context of crisis. This asks also for an analysis of the post-Cold War reconfiguration and multiplication of European borders, as my intention here is to shift the geography of reason, point to counter-genealogies of thought and to decolonial practices of resistance. This means to engage with decolonial critique in relation to the processes of colonial capitalist divisions and differentiation, when speaking about the coloniality of gender, as well as the global imposition of western Eurocentric feminist, queer and transgender knowledge.

Conceptualizing a non-Eurocentric academia is about pushing for a radical change in academic system of interpretation and production of reality, revealing the constitutive underside of (post)modern reason. The transformation strives to be effected by breaking down the academic walls, by challenging the existing political economy of global Eurocentric academia, the established academic disciplines, methodologies, sets of theoretical references, conceptual vocabularies and colonial visual orders in order to shift the geography of reason through dissident interventions by un/learning, producing counter-genealogies of thought and decolonial transfeminist sense/ibility. What is crucial here is to continue opening, accessing, thinking and acting from multiple locations, alternative arrangements of the social, and different political and epistemic possibilities coming from the Global South and East, interrelated with the work of its critical diasporas.