Disobedient memories: the poetic and political practice of the sex-dissident archive in Buenos Aires

Abstract

This text is a theoretical-activist bet towards a situated politics of the archive. The bodies, bearers of an existence and a desire disobedient to moral and social norms, will be conceived as a wealth of memories and knowledge. The archives of sexual disobedience in Buenos Aires make visible transgressive erotic-political identities that break in and, in doing so, fissure the hegemonic social and feminist narratives around the processes of collective memories. From the archive work on counter-memory devices of sexual disobedience during the dictatorship and the Argentine democratic transition; It will reflect on the power of the practice of the archive to dispute the hegemonic devices of heteronormative intelligibility, build affective communities and networks of struggle; as well as enabling the emergence of voices silenced by the great stories of official history. Likewise, the epistemologies of the South will allow the recovery of knowledge and place these forms of collective knowledge production, in the heat of the struggles, in a metaphorical South that, from the reappropriations and deviations, disputes the hegemonic enunciative locus.