Borders to Kill: Authoritarianism and Homo-Trans Phobias

Authors

  • Giancarlo Cornejo Universidade da Califórnia, Berkeley

Keywords:

authoritarianism, homophobia, Peru, queer, sex work, travesti

Abstract

Original translation in Portuguese of the debate originally published in ‘Sombras coloniales y globalización en el Perú de hoy’ (Rede, 2013)

Translated by Baga de Bagaceira Souza Campos

The text seeks to explore a particular form of homophobia, which I call “homo-transphobia,” that specifically affects trans communities. I analyze a specific case concerning the kidnapping and torture of a transvestite sex worker and client in Peru 2009. Towards this end, this study maps the homo-transphobic efforts of establishing bodily, spatial and national borders in order to both expose and critique them.

Dilemas publishes this text for the first time in Portuguese with the permission of the Revista de Antropología Experimental.

 

Author Biography

Giancarlo Cornejo, Universidade da Califórnia, Berkeley

Doutor em retórica com ênfase em mulheres, gênero e sexualidade pela Universidade da Califórnia, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, EUA). É graduado em sociologia pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Peru (PUCP, Lima, Peru). É um estudioso queer peruano.

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Published

2020-01-29

Issue

Vol. 13 No. 1 (2020): JAN/FEV/MAR/ABR

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