This text was originally presented as a lecture at the 3rd Queer Art Fair of Mendoza, hosted by the Center of Information and Communication of the National University of Cuyo in Argentina, November 16, 2012. Thanks to Aberrosexuales, Universidad de Cuyo, Lelya Troncoso, Cristeva Cabello, Jorge Díaz, Javiera Ruiz, Esteban Prieto, and my progenitors Rosita and Orlando.
Juan Pablo Sutherland, Nación Marica, prácticas culturales y crítica activista (Marica nation: Cultural practice and activist critique) (Ripio Ediciones, 2009), 14.
Sutherland, Nación Marica, 15.
Felipe Rivas, Por un feminismo sin mujeres, fragmentos del segundo circuito de Disidencia Sexual (Toward a feminism without women: Fragments from the second circuit of sexual dissidence) (Territorios Sexuales Ediciones, 2011), 68.
The English word “shopping” appears here in the original Spanish. The author’s wordplay pokes fun at colloquial use of “shopping” (instead of a Spanish phrase like ir de compras) in Latin American Spanish. —Ed.
Slavoj Žižek, En defensa de la intolerancia (In defense of intolerance) (Ediciones Sequitur, 2005), 69. Translated here from the Spanish.
This essay was first published in Spanish in Revista Punto Género, no. 4 (2014). It is republished courtesy of Silvia Lamadrid and Revista Punto Género.
Translated by Casey Butcher with editorial assistance from Santiago Silva Daza and Judah Rubin.
A prior version of the English translation was published in a limited-edition publication (designed by Julien Hébert) for the exhibition Living in Foul, curated by Julia Eilers Smith at the Hessel Museum of Art in 2019.