Transfeminista: A Cartography of Transfeminist Praxis across the Americas

Session Submission Type: Panel

Abstract

At its most basic level, transfeminismo is a situated politics of preserving, creating, and cultivating life-worlds targeted for death under a multiplicity of necropolitical regimes. It doesn't borrow but, rather, extends feminist space: it is a rhizomatic series of transnational, transhistorical, and transcultural conversations that span and suture together theory, politics, aesthetics, ethics, poetics, and, perhaps most importantly, praxis. Life born out of death, Latin American transfeminismo(s) is particularly and peculiarly attuned to contradiction: its and/both structuring logic makes transfeminista topographies spaces of inhabitability for those rendered illegible by a dominant politics of either/or. This panel engages with Latin American transfeminista imaginaries in the language of transfeminismo: it embraces multiplicities, paradox, circulation, uncertainty, resistance, fecundity, and contingency in an effort to contribute to the collective project of en/gendering livable lives. As such, the contributions to this panel cartographize different aspects of transfeminista life-making spaces across the Americas: from refusing erasure through memory-making, to the affective politics of be/longing; from the unauthorized transnational travels and circulations of an imaginary-cum-praxis, to the trans/localized crafting of architectures of intelligibility and recognition.

Sub Track

• Gender and Feminisms

Session Organizers

• Claudia S Garriga-Lopez, New York University

• A De La Maza Pérez Tamayo, Universidad de Sonora

Chair

• Marcia Ochoa, University of California/Santa Cruz

Discussant

• Margarita Sayak Valencia Triana, Colegio de la Frontera Norte

Individual Presentations

• Lesbomasculinidades: An Affective Politics of Home - A De La Maza Pérez Tamayo, Universidad de Sonora

• Cochinelli: A Historiography of Transfeminist Praxis in Ecuador - Claudia S Garriga-Lopez, New York University

• Luchas Transfeministas y Transgresoras - Alexandra B Rodriguez, Independent Scholar

• "Ni de aquí ni de allá": A Mythohistoriography of Growing Up In-Between - Andrés C López

• A.S.T.R.A.L, S.T.A.R, and STONE: Supernovas Rising up for Trans* liberation - Dora Silva Santana