Trans* (Dis)appearance at the Mexican Frontier

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ID13087367
AuthorsJorge Sánchez Cruz (0000-0003-1365-2318, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume9
Issue4
Pages540-562
Publication date2022-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueTSQ Transgender Studies Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2328-9252 • E-ISSN: 2328-9260
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/23289252-10133775
OpenAlexW4327642320
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited14

This article positions Teresa Margolles's Ya basta hijos de puta (2018) as a refusal of trans* disappearance created by capitalistic initiatives of renovation, by the failures of the Mexican state, and by transphobic violence. Through the triangulation of three objects, a stone, a legal document, and a sound recording, intertwined with seventeen photographs of trans* people in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, the article also proposes that Margolles's recent aesthetic shift engages transness to open up a coalitional travesti-trans* studies between the North and South. A hemispheric conversation in which praxis and theory meet and where Ya basta hijos de puta as praxis demands on feeling destruction through the “touching” of the stone, on seeing the legal foreclosures through a death certificate, and on hearing of disappearance through the recording, the sound of the afterlife of transness

Aesthetics · Afterlife · Archaeology · Art · Conversation · Feeling · Frontier · Literature · Political science · Praxis · Sociology · Sound (geography · Communication · History · Latin American and Latino Studies · Latin American Literature Studies · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology

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