TY - BOOK AU - Sánchez-Avella,César ED - SpringerLink (Online service) TI - Cultural Activism around Gender and Sexualities in Colombia and Mexico: De un Mundo Raro T2 - Global Queer Politics, SN - 9783031478550 AV - JK1-9993 PY - 2024/// CY - Cham PB - Springer International Publishing, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan KW - America KW - Politics and government KW - Identity politics KW - Ethnology KW - Latin America KW - Culture KW - Sex KW - American Politics KW - Politics and Gender KW - Latin American Culture KW - Sexuality Studies N1 - Chapter 1:Introduction -- Chapter 2: Lia -- Chapter 3: Felipe -- Chapter 4: Manuel -- Chapter 5: Conclusion N2 - This book focuses on an underestimated alternative to the mainstream liberal rights-based approach: cultural activism. This political strategy deploys art and other creative techniques to support the quest for social justice. This work explores this approach's dynamics, strategies, and potential, presenting a qualitative case study of three cultural activists in Colombia and Mexico -Lia García, Felipe Osornio, and Manuel Parra-, including in-depth interviews and ethnographic observation of their artistic/activist work. Through their intervention in the realm of ordinary affects, these cultural producers create new affective climates for the experience of sexual and gender difference and develop new repertoires of affective response concerning identities usually seen as abject or worthy of social punishment. Strategies of cultural activism aim to subvert dominant representations and performances of marginalized subjectivities, to critique and subvert gender norms, to give visibility to non-hegemonic identities, to resist different forms of oppression and marginalization, and to prompt collective healing of wounds left by violence and discrimination. César Sánchez-Avella was Senior Lecturer of Cultural Studies in the Faculty of Social Sciences at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia. He was also a Coordinator from PLURALES Centro Rosarista de Diversidad Equidad e Inclusión . Universidad del Rosario, Colombia UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-47855-0 ER -