In search of the lost community

This article examines how two Central American films – Rosa: Historia de una transexual ( Rosa: Love Blooms in the Darkest Places ) (2006) and Abrázame como antes ( Hold Me Like Before ) (2016) – portray the lives of trans women who search for a lost community from which they have been historically excluded. Drawing on Didier Eribon’s reflections on exclusion, social verdicts, the politics of friendship and resubjectivation, the analysis highlights how the protagonists seek to reconstitute affective bonds through chosen families, everyday intimacy and gestures of care. The street, gay bars and the home function as symbolic spaces of reappropriation, sites where trans subjects resist hegemonic norms and imagine new forms of belonging. Eribon’s framework provides a central lens for understanding how these characters pursue not a return to normativity, but a reinsertion into the social order through alternative communal ties. Ultimately, these films offer counter-narratives that envision survival as a political and affective project grounded in relational reconstruction

Friendship · Gesture · Hegemony · Politics · The Symbolic · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues · Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy

• I Monster

  Open Access•Joseph M Pierce•Latin American Research Review•2020

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  Robyn Wiegman, Elizabeth A Wilson et al.•differences•2015

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