LGBTQ+ Tensions in the 2018 Chilean Feminist Tsunami
In: Bulletin of Latin American research: the journal of the Society for Latin American Studies (SLAS), Band 40, Heft 5, S. 679-695
ISSN: 1470-9856
In this article, we will critically reflect on the 2018 feminist student mobilisations in Chile through an analysis of interviews and discussion groups with LGBTQ+ students who participated in the feminist student protests and occupations. We will argue that even though these feminist student mobilisations can be considered an example of transfeminist coalitions, some relevant conflicts and tensions remain, such as discourses and practices that still use an either/or, binary, cishet framework, maintaining a problematic separation between feminist and LGBTQ+ agendas, undermining the intersectional feminist understandings necessary for a more complex idea of social justice.