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CALL FOR PAPERS NOMADIAS MAGAZINE No. 33 2024.

Special issue sex/dissident: 25 years since the decriminalization of sodomy in Chile, and 51 years since the first homosexual protest.

NOMADÍAS CUIR/QUEER/KUIR. A political/sexual dissident speech to think about the south-south.

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Critical feminist epistemologies from the south to understand the Chile Woke Up movement

Authors

  • Constanza Vergara Cáceres Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso
  • Fabiana Parra Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP)
  • Lídia Yáñez Lagos Universidad de Manchester

Abstract

In this article we position ourselves from critical feminist epistemologies which build genealogies from experiences and “multiple and contradictory anchors” (Ciriza 2015 83) to enrich the understanding of the Chile Woke Up Movement. The general characterizations of this phenomenon so far have left open space to place the role of the actions of women and sexual dissidences as an immediate antecedent of the social outbreak (Coordinadora Feminista 8 de Marzo 2021). Our proposal is the special consideration of the political explosions of women and sexual dissidences as part of the fundamental milestones for the understanding of this recent historical process. The interventions analyzed were carried out by the Yeguada Latinoamericana de Cheril Linett, the LasTesis collective, the 8M Feminist Coordinator of Santiago and the Valparaíso Feminist Block, between October 2019 and October 2020.

Keywords:

sexual political violence, social outbreak, southern feminism, activism