Biblioteca Digital de VanguardiaRunways and ‘Perolones’: Transformationist Mediations on the Avenue of the Liberator in Caracas
For decades, transformationist Venezuelans have ‘paraded’ along the Avenue of the Liberator in Caracas to exhibit themselves and exercise their trade as sex workers. In Venezuela, the word “transformationist” refers to a persona assigned the masculine sex who occupies the female gender. This essay i...
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Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Sede Ecuador
2011
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| description | For decades, transformationist Venezuelans have ‘paraded’ along the Avenue of the Liberator in Caracas to exhibit themselves and exercise their trade as sex workers. In Venezuela, the word “transformationist” refers to a persona assigned the masculine sex who occupies the female gender. This essay is an attempt at understanding the transformationist role of the avenue within the framework of queer of color theory and Venezuelan modernity. The Avenue of the Liberator is an urban space developed in the course of a long modernizations process. It is said that the Avenue of the Liberator was born with democracy. Through their location on this avenue, the transformationists negotiate modernity with their bodies and in the Caracas imaginary. From the runway to the ‘perolón’, the transformationists project a powerful presence on this stage that renders them visible while, simultaneously, subjecting them to incredible violence. |
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| spelling | iconos-article-7492024-04-23T18:08:01Z Runways and ‘Perolones’: Transformationist Mediations on the Avenue of the Liberator in Caracas Pasarelas y ‘Perolones’: Mediaciones transformistas en la avenida Libertador de Caracas Ochoa, Marcia Transformationists queer of color modernity Venezuela. Transformistas Modernidad Venezuela Transforms Queer of color Modernity For decades, transformationist Venezuelans have ‘paraded’ along the Avenue of the Liberator in Caracas to exhibit themselves and exercise their trade as sex workers. In Venezuela, the word “transformationist” refers to a persona assigned the masculine sex who occupies the female gender. This essay is an attempt at understanding the transformationist role of the avenue within the framework of queer of color theory and Venezuelan modernity. The Avenue of the Liberator is an urban space developed in the course of a long modernizations process. It is said that the Avenue of the Liberator was born with democracy. Through their location on this avenue, the transformationists negotiate modernity with their bodies and in the Caracas imaginary. From the runway to the ‘perolón’, the transformationists project a powerful presence on this stage that renders them visible while, simultaneously, subjecting them to incredible violence. Desde hace décadas las transformistas venezolanas han ‘desfilado’ sobre la avenida Libertador en Caracas para exhibirse y ejercer el trabajo sexual. En Venezuela “transformista” se refiere a una persona asignada sexo masculino que ocupa género femenino. Este ensayo propone entender la ocupación transformista de la avenida en el marco de la teoría queer of color y la modernidad venezolana. La avenida Libertador es un espacio urbano desarrollado tras un largo proceso de modernización. Se ha dicho que la avenida Libertador nace con la democracia. A través de su ubicación en esta avenida las transformistas negocian la modernidad sobre sus cuerpos y en el imaginario urbano caraqueño. De la pasarela al ‘perolón’, las transformistas proyectan una presencia imponente sobre esta tarima, que les brinda visibilidad mientras simultáneamente las somete a violencias increíbles. Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Sede Ecuador 2011-01-01 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Artículo evaluado por pares application/pdf https://iconos.flacsoandes.edu.ec/index.php/iconos/article/view/749 10.17141/iconos.39.2011.749 Íconos - Revista de Ciencias Sociales; Núm. 39 (2011): Dossier: ¿Cómo se piensa lo "queer" en América Latina?; 123-142 Íconos - Revista de Ciencias Sociales; n. 39 (2011): Dossier: ¿Cómo se piensa lo "queer" en América Latina?; 123-142 Íconos. Revista de Ciencias Sociales; No. 39 (2011): Dossier: How is queer thought of in Latin America?; 123-142 1390-8065 1390-1249 spa https://iconos.flacsoandes.edu.ec/index.php/iconos/article/view/749/729 Derechos de autor 2011 Marcia Ochoa https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/deed.es_ES |
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| title | Runways and ‘Perolones’: Transformationist Mediations on the Avenue of the Liberator in Caracas |
| title_full | Runways and ‘Perolones’: Transformationist Mediations on the Avenue of the Liberator in Caracas |
| title_fullStr | Runways and ‘Perolones’: Transformationist Mediations on the Avenue of the Liberator in Caracas |
| title_full_unstemmed | Runways and ‘Perolones’: Transformationist Mediations on the Avenue of the Liberator in Caracas |
| title_short | Runways and ‘Perolones’: Transformationist Mediations on the Avenue of the Liberator in Caracas |
| title_sort | runways and ‘perolones’: transformationist mediations on the avenue of the liberator in caracas |
| url | https://iconos.flacsoandes.edu.ec/index.php/iconos/article/view/749 |