IN SEARCH OF A TRAVESTI/TRANS UTOPIA: JOY AND WELL-BEING IN THE POETRY OF GIA LUJURIA, GRETEL WARMICHA, AND SANDRA DIAZ

• Autor: Muñoz-Díaz, Javier
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2025
• Institución: Asociación Peruana de Retórica
• Repositorio: Metáfora
• Lenguaje: español
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• Enlace del recurso: https://www.metaforarevista.com/index.php/meta/article/view/504
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto

This article discusses the poetry of three travesti/trans artists from Peru (Gia Lujuria, Gretel Warmicha, and Sandra Diaz), who engage in a multidisciplinary artistic practice that denounces the colonial heteronormative system and celebrates racialized sexual dissidence. In particular, I am interested in analyzing the experiences of travesti /trans joy and well-being presented in the poetry collections Lucifer y los siete ocho pekados capitales (Lujuria, 2022), Antología Poética 19-21 (Warmicha, 2022), and (A)post-illa: Tras el rayo (Diaz, 2023). I argue that these poetry collections articulate a utopian dimension based on strategies of “loca-lization” (Ochoa, 2004) and disidentification (Muñoz, 1999) with the majority discourse to build alternative worlds. In this sense, Gia Lujuria deconstructs the Christian discourse that demonizes sexual dissidence to postulate the anti-reproductive and anti-capitalist utopia of the encounter between equals; Gretel Warmicha rejects the mandate of cis-passing to explore the well-being of the relationships between humans and other-than-humans; and Sanka Diaz proposes the reindigenization of sex-gender dissidence and colonized territories to recover ancestral fertility.