Memorias posibles para el Movimiento Trans* en Ecuador

38 | 2018

Fernando I. Sancho Ordoñez* y R. Lucas Platero**

* Doctorando del Programa de Doctorado Interuniversitario en Estudios de Género: Culturas, Sociedades y Políticas de la Universidad de Girona, Departamento de Psicología, Instituto de Investigación sobre Calidad de Vida, España/Becario de la Secretaría Nacional de Educación, Ciencia Tecnología e Innovación de Ecuador Senescyt.
** Investigador Juan de la Cierva, Departamento de Psicología de la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Espanha/Investigador del Proyecto i+d VOSATEC, MINECO (2016-18), ref. FFI-2015-65947-C2-1-P; y del Proyecto Europeo Cruisingthe 1970s CRUSEV’ (2016-19), European Science Foundation, ref. CRP 5087-00242ª

Possible memories for the Ecuador trans* movement

In the last twenty years, Ecuador has experimented a number of transformations in social rights that include trans* people. In 1997, homosexuality was no longer considered a crime. From then on, those who were once considered criminals and disturbed individuals became citizens and subjects of rights. Travestites, transgender and transsexual movements have evolved into political subjects that have resisted the cruelest repressions in order to achieve a more livable life (Butler 2017). Using a qualitative methodology grounded in interviews with activists, press articles, biographical documents and LGBTI+ activist shared experiences, we present an exercise of trans* memory construction.

Keywords

activism, state, memory, trans*, Ecuador

DOI: https://doi.org/10.22355/exaequo.2018.38.04
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