Abstract

DIPIETRO, Pedro Javier (PJ). Neither Humans, Nor Animals, Nor Monsters: Decolonizing Transgender Embodiments. Eidos [online]. 2020, n.spe34, pp.254-291.  Epub Nov 25, 2021. ISSN 1692-8857.  https://doi.org/10.14482/eidos.34.306.76.

The voracious lust of the conquest produced Indigenous sodomites in Abya Yala. Native peoples saw their understandings of bodily vitality interrupted. Rape turned anal permeability, which had once communicated various forms of life, into an act of bodily destitution. The permeability of Indigenous flesh, and its transition, was rendered non-human. Coloniality veils this infrahuman condition by mistaking transgender transitions for any nonconforming embodiment. By reading permeable bodies as gender nonconforming, modernity gives rise to monstrous and disabled embodiments. Thus, transgender emerges as the linchpin between ableism and (im)permeability.

The legacy of colonialism conflates near-human and infrahuman bodies. Moving away from this conflation, this writing examines the materiality of ancestral, nonwestern, anal practices, burial rites, ceremonial apparitions, and dances. This decolonizing materialism negotiates (im)permeability over the bridge between, on the one hand, Mesoamerican and Andean cosmologies and, on the other, travesti and trans Latinx embodiments. Ultimately, the coloniarity of transgender framework that I develop centers ontological pluralism in the current conversations about trans* materialisms.

Keywords : coloniality of transgender; travestís; decolonizing body-politics; nagualismo / shapeshifting; indigenous cosmologies; new materialisms.

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