A trans-transvestite countercartography in action: narratives and experiences of contested spatialities and r-existence

Abstract

In the 2021 academic year, as a teaching team of the seminar Counter-cartographies of neoliberalism. Struggles and social movements in defense of territories and life, of the Department of Geography of the Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades (FFyH) of the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (UNC), we carried out in co-coordination with the social organization Todes con DNI, a workshop called Counter-cartographies of neoliberalism and gender identities as a counter-cartography in action. Its aim was to generate instances of collaborative work in which the axis of gender identities and territory-body would be addressed, focusing on the particularities of the various corporealities and each territory in order to develop intervention strategies that could be carried out in different spaces. In this paper, we start by recovering this experience as an exercise that makes it possible to dismantle cisheteropatriarchal conventions in order to open up a space for critical reflection on gender identities as counter-cartographies and, in turn, counter-cartographies as a tool for contesting the cisheteropatriarchal-colonial-capitalist system. The focus is on the political-pedagogical as well as on the narratives and experiences that emerged in relation to the spatialities of trans and transvestite gender identities.