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In pre-colonial Peru the distinctions between male and female were far more flexible than they are today. A traditional travesti or transgender/transvestite identity and culture existed and played an important role in Andean religion and society. Colonial and subsequently development influences suppressed these identities and communities, although the Peruvian travesti remained. In contemporary Peru travestis face violence from the public and police, as well as economic exclusion and discrimination by health services. Travestis have assimilated the worst of both gender roles. Sometimes they are seen as male and thus fair game for violence from the police. However, they have also assumed some aspects of the stereotypical 'hysterical' woman, such as body transformation even at the cost of their health, choosing macho and possibly violent partners, and passivity in sex. Travestis need a new kind of post-feminism to enable them to make active choices about which genders they wish to claim, and to live out their chosen genders in ways that validate themselves. Rights are needed for all people to choose and transit between gender identities whether male, female, or a combination of the two. (IDS Bull/GIGA)

This essay considers the stories of Blaccucini and Ángel Daniel, two Black transgender drag performers from Cuba, and dwells on the relationship they imagine between their work as performers and their subjectivities as trans people. The author situates these narratives within queer Cuban and Caribbean studies, noticing the ways they push back against renderings of gender and sexuality as inherently distinct categories. Instead, for these artist-thinkers, trans subjectivity is informed by various experiences related to gender, sexuality, race, class, and geography. The essay offers some possibilities for greater nuance in accounts of sexual subjectivity in Cuba and the Caribbean and locates the stakes of these discussions in broader transnational LGBT rights discourses.

Resumo: A cisgeneridade-binária, heterossexual e compulsória como regime de governamentalidade (Michel FOUCAULT, 1979) determinou, por muito tempo, pressupostos que abarcam marcas profundas com seus estabelecidos normativos. As normas, marcadas pelo regime, acorrentaram as multiplicidades sexuais e de gênero fora daquilo que compreendia o social no Brasil e em boa parte do mundo. A marca repulsiva e marginalizada impressa pelos pressupostos da cis-hetero-governamentalidade de identidades de gênero e sexo no Brasil tem sua emergência a partir dos estudos que nomeavam como substantivo masculino as travestis, os primeiros corpos ciborgues (Donna HARAWAY, 1994) do/no Brasil. Além disso, tal dinâmica marcava corpos travestis em uma condição de não lugar. Muitos estudos abriram trincheira por vales colonizados na tentativa de descrever as subjetividades travestis, além dos essencialismos de gênero (Paul B. PRECIADO, 2017). Este manifesto, aos moldes de outros, busca apresentar, a partir de um pensamento travesti, caminhos atravessados pelo transfeminismo e transativismo, para um futuro travesti, marcado pela luta, afeto e pela presença destas vidas e práticas (transformadoras) em todos os (anti)estratos sociais que operam com o poder da negatividade (Jack HALBERSTAN, 2012).

Resumo O objetivo deste artigo é analisar o processo de construção da chamada "travesti profissional". Tal processo está conectado ao surgimento de um interesse cada vez maior do público brasileiro e internacional para os "shows de travesti", eventos famosos nas décadas de 1960 a 1980. São aqui analisados os espetáculos International Set e Les Girls, pioneiros nesse gênero, e os seus impactos nas trajetórias de vida de uma geração de pessoas que hoje se identificam como travestis. Os dados para a escrita deste artigo foram obtidos junto a fontes documentais e orais: impressos de jornais e revista e relatos de indivíduos que vivenciaram esse período.

It is now taken for granted among Rabelais scholars that Gargantua presents stylistic inconsistencies that evince a lack of inspiration: in fact, the text is marked by discrepancies and "étourderies". Conversely, critics haven't yet come to an agreement as regards the dating of the editio princeps (1534 or 1535), and this has relevant ideological, as well as material, implications. This essay compares the two first editions of the text (based on Mireille Huchon's method and findings), with a view to responding to these questions. The essay argues that the first version of Gargantua, dating from 1533-1534, was essentially comic and popular in character. Later on, supporting the interests of the Du Bellay clan, Rabelais hastily added elements – which can be firmly identified at the formal level – that position it in the political and ideological climate of 1535.

En este artículo nos preguntamos por el llamado "giro conservador" y su impacto en la situación de las travestis en Argentina. Analizamos la construcción de dos imágenes morales controvertidas: la travesti permitida y la narcotravesti. En el marco de las políticas de empleo que entre 2003 y 2015 movilizaron la idea de trabajo digno, la primera imagen representa a aquellas que demandaron y conquistaron una inserción laboral diferente de la prostitución desde un paradigma abolicionista. En contraposición, la narcotravesti es una figura cristalizada recientemente en un polémico fallo del Tribunal Oral en lo Criminal I de La Plata, que condenó a una peruana a prisión por venta de droga y cuya pena fue agravada por su condición de extranjera. Dicha figura fue replicada en relatos policiales y periodísticos, dando cuenta del recrudecimiento de la represión policial en las zonas rojas y de la creciente estigmatización de las migrantes. El despliegue de estas dos imágenes nos permite explorar, por un lado, las intersecciones políticas y morales que trazan los límites de lo posible y lo aceptable para las travestis; y por otro, la configuración de vulnerabilidades diferenciales en un contexto de retroceso y pauperización de sus condiciones de vida. ; This paper inquires on the "conservative twist" and it impact on travestis' lives in Argentina. In this regard, two moral images are analysed: the permitted travesti and the narcotravesti. The former represents those who struggled for a dignified work within an abolitionist paradigm. The latter, on the contrary, was recently crystalized in a sentence that sent a Peruvian travesti to prison for drug dealing, considering the fact of her being foreigner as an aggravating circumstance. The narcotravesti image was widely spread by the media, informing the rise in police repression and the stigmatization of migrant people. The analysis of these two images contribute to explore, on the one hand, the moral and political intersections that constrain the limits of the possible and acceptable for travestis; and, on the other, the configuration of specific vulnerabilities within a repressive context. ; Fil: Cutuli, Maria Soledad. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras. Instituto de Ciencias Antropológicas; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina