Sideways Selves : Travesti and Jotería Struggles Across the Américas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

DiPietro, PJ.

Series:

Latinx: the Future Is Now Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intersectionality (Sociology).

Oppression (Psychology).

Marginality, Social.

Sexual minorities--California--San Francisco Bay.

Sexual minorities.

Black people--California--San Francisco Bay.

Black people.

Quiché Indians--California--San Francisco Bay.

Quiché Indians.

Indians of Central America--California--San Francisco Bay.

Indians of Central America.

Nahuas--California--San Francisco Bay.

Nahuas.

Indians of Mexico--California--San Francisco Bay.

Indians of Mexico.

Gender nonconformity--California--San Francisco Bay.

Gender nonconformity.

Sexual minorities--Argentina--Buenos Aires.

Black people--Argentina--Buenos Aires.

Indigenous peoples--Argentina--Buenos Aires.

Indigenous peoples.

Gender nonconformity--Argentina--Buenos Aires.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (398 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2025.

Summary:

"In Sideways Selves, PJ DiPietro weaves together Jotería Studies with recent work in Latin American and Latinx trans studies. DiPietro looks at networks of two trans migrant populations: Aymara travesti (a term once pejorative, but then reappropriated by activists in Peru and Argentina) from the Peruvian altiplano who have settled in Buenos Aires, and K'ich'e and Nahua migrants, who have moved to the San Francisco Bay area. By doing so, DiPietro creates a cross-hemispheric and interdisciplinary study that examines how trans and non-binary networks are able to engage in decolonial practices together. Deeply informed by feminist theory and practice, Afro-diaspora studies, and Indigenous studies, this manuscript traces the ways in which the body becomes an archive of knowledge and a tool to counter colonial practices. These identities, communal and genderless in nature, create an embodied project which theorize as sideways selves. Language in particular becomes a thematic thread throughout the chapters in re-imagining the colonial nature of the trans body as gender terminologies unwind in the face of Indigenous languages and literary narratives describe bodily responsiveness to healing and sacred practices such as vodou, brujería, and curanderismo"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Half-title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Introduction

1. Sideways Selves, Realidades Atravesadas

2. The Coloniality of Transgender

3. Stressing Verbs, De-stressing Nouns

4. Hallucinating Knowing

5. Jotería Poetics

Afterword

Acknowledgments

Notes

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-4773-3178-6

1-4773-3179-4

OCLC:

1521495583