Tranvestite, Inflections of Identity Binarism: The Relevance of Lohana Berkins' Thought for Latin American Queer Debates (Cuir).

Abstract

This article addresses a part of Lohana Berkins’ written production about transvestite identity. It develops the sense, the installation, the non-binary, the visibility, and the utopia as relevant aspects in the development of the transvestite statement. In doing so, it highlights the later’s contributions to the discussion about Transgender and Queer/ cuir Studies, establishing a Latin American reference to think about the debate on mechanisms to escape the binary system from a decolonial reading. It also develops the results of using the tools of feminism for the interpretation of transvestite experiences within patriarchy.