A dissident archive: emergence and dissemination of sexual dissidence in Chilean student movement between 2008 and 2018

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to carry out a historical and political reconstruction of sexual dissidence in student spaces through an exploratory review of testimonies and scattered memories produced by organizations, groups and active in Chile during the period of mayor student revolts between 2008 and 2018 in. Conceptually, it seeks to present a notion of sexual dissent that is not only distinct from the politics of sexual diversity by the official organizations of the LGTBI+ movement, but also allows for the elaboration of a new perspective to understand queerness/cuirness and its relationship with the process of social mobilization in the country from a Latin American perspective. The originality of the study consists in queerizing the recent history of the Chilean student movement through a periodization of counter-hegemonic actions, specifically performances, assemblies and occupations. It is concluded that the practices of sexual dissent and activism understand social movements as a direct political result of encounters and interaction between bodies and affections and whose street performativity questions the forms of heteropatriarchal political action in the context of neoliberalism in Chile.

Keywords

• sexual dissidence
• feminism
• queer/cuir
• assembly
• student movement