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This article explores the role of critical engagement with official and alternative historical narratives for dissident/diverse activists in Chile. Intervening in the debate surrounding queer temporality, which has tended to focus on the idea of futurity, the article brings Elizabeth Freeman's concept of "temporal drag" into conversation with Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui's theorization of ch'ixi subjectivity to argue that temporal drag on ch'ixi bodies renders visible the impact of colonial norms surrounding race and sexuality in the creation of the modern Chilean nation-state. Through four case studies, gathered via archival research and ethnographic participant observation, the author makes the case that by engaging with and questioning, rather than running from, official historical narratives, dissident/diverse activists in Chile carry out activism that brings to light both the country's historical and continuing oppression of sexual and racial minorities and the violent histories of colonialism and dictatorship that have made this oppression possible.

"Transgender-Specific Policy in Latin America" published on by Oxford University Press.

Abstract
The papers in this special section examine how people in various contexts of the Global South "construct the self" in
online spaces. With examples from Chile, Senegal, and Trinidad, the papers show the wide range of discursive practices, encompassing the
textual and the aesthetic, which individuals use to enact gendered and sexual selves online. By privileging gender and sexuality as central
components of selfhood, we draw from the longstanding attention paid to gender and sexuality in linguistic studies of identification (see
Bucholtz & Hall 2004). In placing this concept within digital worlds, we pay attention to
the ways in which daily life is now lived and experienced online. Authors in this issue think critically about practices of self-formation
and the performance of gender and sexuality that differ from those that have normalized in the Global North, considering both revolutionary
possibility, and re-entrenchment of constraint.