DISSIDENCES ON THE MARCH: TRAJECTORIES OF LGBTIQ+ MOVEMENTS IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
This symposium is proposed as an interdisciplinary meeting space to bring together research, critical reflections, and the experiences of activists exploring the origins, developments, tensions, and legacies of social movements linked to sexual and gender dissidences in Latin America and the Caribbean. With a cross-cutting approach drawing on the social sciences, the humanities, law, collective health, and the arts, the event pursues a dual purpose: on one hand, to recover and make visible the historical memories of pioneering organizations from the 1970s through their consolidation in the 1980s and 1990s; on the other, to examine how these trajectories have contributed—and continue to contribute—to the construction and expansion of sexual citizenships in the region, understood as effective access to rights, bodily autonomy, the recognition of diversity, and participation without discrimination in public and private spheres.
Through dialogue among academia, social activism, and citizenship, the symposium seeks to deepen the analysis of the contexts of authoritarianism, cisheteronormativity, and social inequalities that shaped these struggles. To this end, participants are invited to recover both the transnational networks of solidarity and the devices of public representation (marches, alternative press, community archives, artivisms), as well as the internal complexities and tensions of the movements. In this way, the symposium seeks to equitably recognize the historical memories of homosexual liberation movements, the fundamental contributions of lesbian collectives in articulation with feminist struggles, and the experiences of resistance and dispute for the legal, health, and social recognition of trans people.
General objective: To recover, document, and make visible the historical memories and critical contributions of homosexual liberation movements, lesbian-feminist movements, and trans resistances in Latin America and the Caribbean, through the analysis of the particular disputes for autonomy and recognition, with the aim of fostering a multidisciplinary and intergenerational dialogue that identifies the continuities, shifts, and current challenges of sexual citizenships in the region.
