Required reading
I selected a (very) limited range of texts in English for those wishing to acquaint themselves with consollidated perspectives on queer or trans decolonization
Decolonizing Approaches
RS Coloma – Encyclopedia of Queer Studies in Education, 2022 – brill.com
Decolonizing approaches challenge eurocentric knowledges, histories, cultures, beliefs,
behaviors, and practices that are hegemonically imposed, become normalized, and govern …
Beyond benevolent violence: Trans* of color, ornamental multiculturalism, and the decolonization of affect
PJ DiPietro – Speaking face to face: The visionary philosophy of …, 2019 – degruyter.com
What does it feel like when you are seen but half-seen? I mean, half-seen not in the way that
we all are kind of half-seen, half-there, not quite full reflections of who we understand …
Decolonizing trans/gender studies? Teaching gender, race, and sexuality in times of the rise of the global right
A Tudor – Transgender Studies Quarterly, 2021 – read.dukeupress.edu
In this article, the author argues that a decolonial perspective on gender means
conceptualizing it as always already trans. The object of investigation is gender as a …
Decolonizing transgender: A roundtable discussion
T Boellstorff, M Cabral, M Cárdenas… – Transgender …, 2014 – read.dukeupress.edu
This roundtable discussion took place between August 2013 and January 2014 through e-
mail. Eventually, two questions were posed, and participants individually e-mailed their …
Toward a trans sovereignty: Why we need Indigenous rhetorics to decolonize gender and sexuality
R Presley – Transgender Rhetorics, 2020 – cfshrc.org
This exploratory essay seeks to orient transgender rhetorics towards a non-white,
Indigenous vocabulary. In disrupting and dislocating our rhetorical landscape from its …
Trans-autobiographies as sites for decolonization
JC Hawley – the Self, 2015 – diva-portal.org
I do not have the duty to be this or that [….] I am not a prisoner of history. I should not seek
there for the meaning of my destiny [….] In the world through which I travel, I am endlessly …
The cosmetics of transculturation
H Levy – Globalized Queerness, 2023
Queer artists who have chased contacts and careers abroad by sticking to local names and references or performers who have naturalized local homophobia by situating themselves beyond the national mindset.
Helton Levy 