Of Huachafería, Así, and M’ E Mati: Decolonizing Transing Methodologies

Trans, transing, queer, and queering are typically represented as sharing in the antinormalizing labor that concerns material bodies. In the vein of decolonial feminism, this essay looks at three renderings of transing methodologies for what they teach us about: the geopolitical tension between transing and queering; genealogies of feminist, gay and lesbian, queer, and trans studies; the collusion of Euro-centered thought with trans research; and the social ontology of transing embodiments.