Vogue, between the Culture of Resistance and the Context of Dissent: An Approach to the Bogota Case

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Published: Feb 2, 2022
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Vogue, Ballroom, Sex Gender, Cisnormative, Heteronormative

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César Giovanny Abadía Rojas
Independent Researcher
Deyvit Nicolás Téllez Pardo
Universidad Santo Tomás de Aquino

Abstract

This semi-structured interview seeks to analyze the vogue scene as a political commitment among the trans, non-binary and queer population in Bogotá within the framework of the national strike of 2021. To that end, the interview stems from a national attempt to create a sociocultural and geopolitical space for a segment of the population with diverse genders and sexualities, thus configuring itself as an organizational territory in the cultural sphere. Therefore, the interview explores the relationship between the vogue scene and the political commitment attached to the sociohistorical struggles of that community, considering that vogue served as a tool for the trans population of New York during the 1980s to criticize socially and biologically assigned roles within the cisnormative, phallocratic and heteronormative system. This criticism continues to inform Colombian vogue, as well as the commitment to structural state reform in response to the systematic, direct, institutional, and symbolic violence that has left a historical mark on the trans, non-binary and queer population.

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No. 58 (2021): Essays and Experiences in Trans Colombia
Section
Interviews
Author Biographies

César Giovanny Abadía Rojas , Independent Researcher

Master in International Relations, with an emphasis in geopolitical studies and human rights from Saint Petersburg State University, Russia. Political scientist with laureate thesis in peacebuilding studies from civil society from the University of Peoples' Friendship, Moscow, Russia. Crowdfunding expert, digital marketing strategist, diverse sex political activist and Human Rights defender characterized by high social commitment with a differential and intersectional approach to gender. I have triangulated the use of new technologies with the use of ancestral medicines to give a holistic approach to the human sciences that allow us to understand the human being not as a subject of study but as an integral part and raison d'être of social studies.

Deyvit Nicolás Téllez Pardo, Universidad Santo Tomás de Aquino

Student in the dual degree program of sociology and psychology (Santo Tomás de Aquino University - USTA) with emphasis on differential approach in the public policy of victims (Technical Subcommittee of Differential Approach of the National System of Attention and Comprehensive Reparation to Victims - SNARIV). Active member of the research group (DE) Generando los Genres; activist and national educator of the national collective León Zuleta (CLZ).  National representative of the Patriotic Union's secretariat  for the sexual diversity and non-hegemonic genders (LGBTIQ +).