.... Such a practice actively resists the erasure and colonization of texts by and about trans*, trans, nonbinary, or genderqueer persons and lives. This article looks to the work of Chilean writer and performance artist Pedro Lemebel's urban chronicles to reveal the antinormalizing, decolonizing practice of becoming...

... resist or fail at homo- and gender-normative assimilation, however, are still excluded from the imagined community of the nation and are both less visible and more vulnerable to erasure. Pedro Lemebel, a Chilean author and performance artist who identifies as a loca , has become famous for making...

... Texts .” boundary 2 43 , no. 2 : 179 – 204 . Copyright © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 Pedro Lemebel inaugura la escena escritural chilena con una boca llena. Boca abierta con una lengua que no se detiene, que se suelta y despliega para posarse, lamer, enroscarse, penetrar y libar...

... ; Spade 2013 ), the incommensurability of difference to the normalization of the neoliberal state. Here Gómez-Barris hinges on Pedro Lemebel's oeuvre to question the inherent paradoxical constructions of recognizability of the Chilean Left. Such “in-capturability” of the Southern Cone's travesti / cuir...

..., sometimes blurring into travesti women, as seen in much of Chilean author Pedro Lemebel's well-known work. For more on this topic see González 2014 . 8. “Se cuenta en el ambiente que algunos de los cuerpos encontrados acribillados en fosas comunes del norte de nuestro país, en el desierto, eran...