Diverse Territories: the fabrics of the leather city

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.22533/at.ed.216472425038

• Palavras-chave: cuir, imágenes, imaginarios, territorio, estudios visuales, estudios de género.

• Keywords: cuir, images, imaginaries, territory, visual studies, gender studies

• Abstract:

  Diverse Territories is a journey that seeks to glimpse the manifestation of the images and imaginaries of cuir, which impact the city of Medellín in the new millennium, and how they have been configured through the culture, spaces and transversal relationships of the members. of the city's LGBTIQ+ groups. From this premise, the aim is to show the approach carried out to elucidate the representations, relationships and contrasts that exist when inhabiting an urban territory from the diversity and divergence of the performativity of gender and sex. Here, it is important to mention that to translate cuir experiences and corporalities it is necessary to transcend the physical, that is, the material level of the images that are configured and understood from the collective imagination, with a sociocultural perspective, accompanied by symbolic and affective imaginaries that they are detonated and contained. For this reason, we propose some categories that allow us to capture that subjective view, as they are a recount of different individual experiences of the territory; prioritizing the intersectionality offered by cuir theory.