Crossing Sex and Gender in Latin America

Lewis, Vek

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“…The trace of death that lurks within the breeding market and within aestheticised forms of life has implications for the interpretation of the relationship between human life and death in the text. Some critics have read the movement from the salon to the Moridero in binary terms, contending that the text maps a departure from the ‘halcyon days’ of the beauty salon towards the tragedy of human death (Lewis, : 128). Yet as Sergio Delgado notes perceptively in his reading of the corporeal aesthetics of the text, the salon is in fact already tainted by the mark of death, for the salon's beauty treatments, which are on the whole directed towards ageing women, work according to the logic of masking death, of concealing its steady onset through the reproduction of images of life (Delgado, : 77).…”

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“…While the novella's central malady is never explicitly identified as HIV/AIDS, the text's queer subjectivities and publication date mean that this pandemic functions as a possible context, and this historical connection has given rise to readings of the novella as ‘a melancholy coda to liberation’ in Latin American queer cultural production, as Jean Franco puts it (Franco, : 274). Critics have argued that the novella traces a movement away from the ‘utopia’ or ‘golden age’ of the ‘transgressive’ body in health towards the ‘dystopia of homosexual death’ and the dehumanising loss of identity that occurs with the advent of the disease (Lewis, : 128; Meruane, : 162). To my mind, the implicit dichotomy constructed in these readings between a past liberation that is celebrated and the mourning task of the present forecloses the broader implications of Bellatin's text.…”

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Animality, Sexuality and the Politics of Death in Mario Bellatin's Salón de belleza

Bollington

2017

Bull Latin American Res

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In Bellatin's Salón de belleza aquariums filled with exotic fish function as the symbolic nexus through which queer bodies and destructive power intersect and become involved in mutational processes. This article brings the novella into dialogue with biopolitical philosophy, queer theory and posthumanism in order to conceptualise the multivalent implications of the text's trans-species reflections and crossings. My analysis moves beyond existing interpretations of the novella as a mournful account of the HIV/AIDS pandemic or as a text that documents violence more broadly, by calling attention to the more affirmative potentialities that are also latent in Bellatin's aesthetics of impersonality.

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Animality, Sexuality and the Politics of Death in Mario Bellatin's Salón de belleza

Bollington

2017

Bull Latin American Res

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“…For example, Latin American representations of trans people as deceivers may include stronger associations with criminality (Lewis 2010). Indeed transphobia can occur differently in different types of social contexts within a culture.…”

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Koch-Rein¹

2014

TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly

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This section includes eighty-six short original essays commissioned for the inaugural issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly. Written by emerging academics, community-based writers, and senior scholars, each essay in this special issue, ''Postposttranssexual: Key Concepts for a Twenty-First-Century Transgender Studies,'' revolves around a particular keyword or concept. Some contributions focus on a concept central to transgender studies; others describe a term of art from another discipline or interdisciplinary area and show how it might relate to transgender studies. While far from providing a complete picture of the field, these keywords begin to elucidate a conceptual vocabulary for transgender studies. Some of the submissions offer a deep and resilient resistance to the entire project of mapping the field terminologically; some reveal yet-unrealized critical potentials for the field; some take existing terms from canonical thinkers and develop the significance for transgender studies; some offer overviews of well-known methodologies and demonstrate their applicability within transgender studies; some suggest how transgender issues play out in various fields; and some map the productive tensions between trans studies and other interdisciplines.

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“…Elas realizam uma série de mudanças corporais para ajudar seus corpos a conseguir uma aparência feminina. Lewis (2010) argumenta que os termos "travesti" e "transgender" não são permutáveis porque fazem parte de diferentes tradições culturais e linguísticas. 3 A Articulação Nacional de Travestis e Transexuais (ANTRA) é uma entidade que abriga mais de 178 ONGs de travestis e transexuais em todo o país.…”

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Vidas Ininteligíveis E Práticas Indizíveis: Travestis Brasileiras Negociando as Posições Entre Criminalização E Vitimização Da Organização Das Redes De Prostituição / Unintelligible Lives and Unspeakable Practices: Brazilian Travestis Negotiating Positions Between Criminalisation and Victimisation Within Organised Prostitution Networks

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Ornat

2018

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Este artigo tem por objetivo evidenciar a criminalização das travestis brasileiras e as formas de organização de sua sobrevivência por meio das redes de prostituição. Para tanto, o texto explora as contradições entre a compreensão do grupo sobre suas vivências e os esquemas normativos de inteligibilidade do comércio sexual, tanto na escala nacional como internacional. Os dados são oriundos de trinta e duas entrevistas em profundidade. Sete delas realizadas com responsáveis por Organizações Não Governamentais (ONGs) brasileiras. Três com instituições espanholas envolvidas com a situação da prostituição envolvendo imigrantes e vinte e duas entrevistas com travestis brasileiras no período de 2008 a 2010. A análise evidência que as redes de prostituição travesti brasileiras são criminalizadas e pouco inteligíveis pelas instituições formais, aumentando assim sua vulnerabilidade social.

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Crossing Sex and Gender in Latin America

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