Poéticas Disidentes

Abstract

This research examines a singular marker -that is, the aesthetic-political event -in the poetic production of eight Latin American trans women (Flor Bárcenas, Claudia Rodríguez, Susy Shock, Frida Cartas, Edras Parra, Agatha Brooks, Naty Menstrual, and Lía García) as a form of collective resistance that protects the singularity of the trans experience against a sex-racial system that has expelled them from the notion of humanity. From this arises the need to engage with the theoretical category of the political symbiont, proposed by the Spanish philosopher Paul Preciado. This category seeks to link writing with collective strategies that stem from the deconstruction of language and the dissolution of fixed identities. The political symbiont is presented as a consequence of the power of poems to explain the possibility of spaces of knowledge through collective actions in which the poet is not an individualized, private, and regulated subject. Rather, in writing, he achieves a connection with other forms of existence to cope with the annulment of his existence.