Pj Dipietro: Sideways Selves, Kartoniert / Broschiert

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"In Sideways Selves, PJ DiPietro weaves together Joterâia 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, brujerâia, and curanderismo"--