Mujeres e identidades “queer” en la Revolución Mexicana (1910-1921): Retratos tránsfugas en el incipiente siglo XX en México

Abstract

A corpus of portraits of transvestite women in the Mexican Revolution is analyzed as a "counter-archive" (Curiel), in the sense of investigating it from an alternate perspective to find other facets of its visibility, and as a "queer curatorial practice” (Gopinath) in which a decentered approach is envisaged, which contributes to the reconstruction of memory; since despite their diffusion, these portraits remain "in(visible)" to our gaze, that is, "as images that dispute their irruption in the visibility order, but that do not finish appearing in it" (Rodríguez-Blanco). Thus, this analysis adjudicates the "right to look" (Mirzoeff) at these images, as a corpus of turncoat portraits of canonical visualities.

Keywords

• transvestite women
• turncoat identity
• “queer”
• gender subversion