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- Author: David Tenorio
- Publisher: University of Michigan Press
- ISBN-10: 047205760X
- ISBN-13: 9780472057603
- Format: 15.6 x 22.7 x 2 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English
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In 2015, Mexico City declared itself a "gay-friendly" city and followed up with a gay tourist guide and new laws permitting changes to gender markers on legal documents, sanctioning same-sex marriage, and allowing joint adoption of children. At the same time, patterns of violence and discrimination against women, trans, and queer people have continued throughout the country. In Queer Relajo, David Tenorio argues that while Mexico City aims to bring visibility to queer sociality, the benefits of this visibility and legitimization of queer space remain unclear.
Combining readings of film, digital media, and performance with drag autoethnography, Queer Relajo quite literally plays with how relajo (or playfulness) structures the spaces of queer nightlife in urban Mexico City by revealing how nighttime intimacy can minimize the paralyzing effects of violence and precarity in a neoliberal Mexico. Considering the political implications of when a queer/trans person is present at night, Tenorio argues that queer modes of feeling and play are not only essential to queer liberation, but also resist neoliberal commodification and heteronormativity.EXTRA 10 % discount with code: EXTRA
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- Author: David Tenorio
- Publisher: University of Michigan Press
- ISBN-10: 047205760X
- ISBN-13: 9780472057603
- Format: 15.6 x 22.7 x 2 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English English
In 2015, Mexico City declared itself a "gay-friendly" city and followed up with a gay tourist guide and new laws permitting changes to gender markers on legal documents, sanctioning same-sex marriage, and allowing joint adoption of children. At the same time, patterns of violence and discrimination against women, trans, and queer people have continued throughout the country. In Queer Relajo, David Tenorio argues that while Mexico City aims to bring visibility to queer sociality, the benefits of this visibility and legitimization of queer space remain unclear.
Combining readings of film, digital media, and performance with drag autoethnography, Queer Relajo quite literally plays with how relajo (or playfulness) structures the spaces of queer nightlife in urban Mexico City by revealing how nighttime intimacy can minimize the paralyzing effects of violence and precarity in a neoliberal Mexico. Considering the political implications of when a queer/trans person is present at night, Tenorio argues that queer modes of feeling and play are not only essential to queer liberation, but also resist neoliberal commodification and heteronormativity.
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