The body of the trans woman: an analysis of the sht orfilm "Lxooro"

• Autor: Gomez, Sophia
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2018
• Institución: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Repositorio: Revistas - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/21310
• Enlace del recurso: http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/anthropia/article/view/21310
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Mujer trans; performatividad; cuerpo; violencia; Trans woman; performativity; body; violence

"Loxoro" is a short film released in 2012 and directed by the Peruvian filmmaker Claudia Llosa. The story shows the search of Makuti (a trans woman), who tries to find her daughter Mia, who has disappeared a few days ago. This review focuses on an emerging representation on the film: the trans body. Through the analysis of key scenes, it is argued that the trans body experiences a deep and cruel violence, whose final objective is the death or eradication of the body itself, because its existence or possibility of existence questions the heteronormative order that represents the aggressors. In other words, the existence of Mía destabilizes the origins of the identity of the aggressors: the violent heteronormativity.