The Autoethnography of a Transnational Mariposa

• In Event: Disrupting Cishetero Logics: Queer Futures and Trans Educational Justice

Abstract

Drawing from Latin American queer studies, queers of color (QOC) epistemologies, jotería studies, the author uses his transnational mariposa consciousness to document the narratives of self-identified gay men and trans women in Panamá. As part of a qualitative research study, the author uses autoethnography to analyze how being born different and a lack of supportive system, LGBT individuals in Panama become victims of homophobia, discrimination, heteronormativity, and hate crime.

Author

• Juan Rios Vega, Bradley University