[Lasa] Sexualities Studies Section Workshop online

Mar Oct 14 23:40:27 PDT 2025

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De: Ghisselle Blanco <ghisselle en lasaweb.org>
Date: mar., 14 de octubre de 2025 5:09 p. m.
Subject: Sexualities Studies Section Workshop
To: Ghisselle Blanco <ghisselle en lasaweb.org>

Estimado/a chair de sección,

Espero que se encuentre bien.

La sección de Sexualities Studies está preparando un interesante *Taller
sobre Alianzas: Lenguaje Inclusivo, Historia y Lucha contra el Colonialismo*,
cuya descripción  está al final del email y adjunto los flyers para
promoverlo entre los miembros de su sección, sí lo considera conveniente.

Saludos,

Ghisselle

*Workshop on Alliances: Gender-Inclusive Language, History, and the
Struggle against Colonialism*

The question that motivates this workshop is as follows: How can we frame
the use of gender-inclusive Spanish as an alliance of both inclusivity and
decoloniality considering the history of colonialism in Latin America that
has permeated our relationships and identities? Our hypothesis is that the
conditions of possibility for conceiving of gender-inclusive language have
existed in Latin America since colonial times and they reflect a broader
exercise of solidarity and allyship. Recent research (e.g. Reales Gil,
2020) has demonstrated predominantly negative attitudes towards the use of
gender-inclusive language in Argentina, Mexico, and Spain. This workshop is
a response to the idea that gender-inclusive language is an imposition from
outside the Spanish-speaking world by demonstrating that instead or in
addition, it is produced by Hispanic gender and sexual dissidents and
allies as a form of resistance to colonialism. The new grammar that has
emerged is itself an alliance between these disenfranchised groups, who
have reimagined the constraints placed upon them by modifying the grammar
of the imperial Spanish language. Following an interactive fashion, we will
overview the Digital Humanities project Gender Inclusive *Spanish Digital
Archive.* This project provides participants with interactive temporal and
spatial visualizations of Spanish-speaking cultural productions featuring
linguistic dissidence ranging from colonial to contemporary times. Our
primary resources include art, zines, poetry, theses, manifestos, short
stories, novels, and videos. First, we set the stage by interrogating
cultural productions from the colonial era to understand the choque
cultural and forms of dominance imposed in colonialism that created the
rigidly binary system of gender in Latin America today. Namely, we document
early installations of this binary worldview by colonizers that
precipitated the insurgence of gender and sexual dissidents in Latin
America and that contextualize the intersectionality between the struggle
of gender and sexual dissents and colonial violence. Then, we analyze
contemporary cultural productions that implement gender-inclusive Spanish
through the use of neomorphemes (e.g. “x,” “e,” etc) to draw on how these
cultural manifestations express a loose alliance. Taking up Audre Lorde’s
argument that there is no hierarchy of oppression, we argue that these
gender and sexual dissidents have resisted gender binarism as a direct
confrontation to the coloniality of power.

*Workshop presenters: Euge Stumm and Ben Papadopoulos*

Euge Stumm (they/them/elle/elu) is a Dean's Fellow and Ph.D. student in
Literary, Cultural, and Linguistic Studies in the Department of Modern
Languages and Literatures at the University of Miami. Their research
examines how gender and sexual dissidents in Latin America construct
language to express their experiences. Their research corpus focuses on
cultural productions utilizing inclusive language and non-binary Spanish in
Argentina, and Pajubá, a cryptolect originally developed by travesti sex
workers, in Brazil. Currently, they are developing an open-access Pajubá
Digital Archive, gathering multiple resources, dictionaries, and scholarly
works on the cryptolect.

Ben Papadopoulos (he/they/él/elle) is a recent Ph.D graduate in Hispanic
Languages and Literatures from the University of California, Berkeley. He
is primarily interested in the fields of sociolinguistics and critical
sociology. His research revolves around the topic of gender-inclusive
language and makes sociological arguments about language as a category of
power and the right of queer and trans people to have and use adequate
forms of self-identification. Relatedly, he is the founder of the Gender in
Language Project (genderinlanguage.com), which aims to offer grammars of
gender in as many languages as possible.

To attend, please register:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/gender-inclusive-language-history-and-the-struggle-against-colonialism-tickets-1811037504929

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Taller sobre Alianzas: Lenguaje Inclusivo, Historia y Lucha contra el
Colonialismo.

La cuestión que motiva este taller es: ¿cómo podemos plantear el uso del
lenguaje no binario como una alianza decolonial y de inclusión dada la
historia del colonialismo en Latinoamérica que ha permeado nuestras
relaciones e identidades? Nuestra hipótesis es que las posibilidades de
concebir el lenguaje no binario han existido en Latinoamérica desde tiempos
coloniales y reflejan una iniciativa más amplia de solidaridad y alianza.
Investigaciones recientes (e.g. Reales Gil, 2020) han demostrado actitudes
predominantemente negativas hacia el uso del lenguaje no binario en
Argentina, México y España. Este taller es una respuesta a la idea de que
el lenguaje no binario es una imposición extranjera y demuestra que su uso
por parte de hispanxs de identidades no cisheteronormativas y sus aliades
es una forma de resistencia al colonialismo. La nueva gramática que ha
surgido en sí es una alianza entre estos grupos marginados que han
reimaginado las restricciones de la gramática imperial. De manera
interactiva, detallaremos el proyecto de humanidades digitales llamado *Archivo
digital del lenguaje no binario.* El proyecto organiza temporalmente y
espacialmente la visualización de producciones culturales que evidencian la
disidencia lingüística desde la época colonial hasta el presente. Nuestros
recursos primarios incluyen arte, zines, poemas, tesis, manifiestos,
relatos cortos, novelas y videos. Primero, interrogamos producciones de la
época colonial para entender el choque cultural y las formas de dominación
colonial que impusieron el sistema rígido de género binario que existe hoy
en Latinoamérica. Más específicamente, documentamos ejemplos de cómo la
instauración de esta cosmovisión precipitó la insurgencia de disidentes
sexogenériques en Latinoamérica y cómo contextualiza la interseccionalidad
entre estas personas y la violencia colonial. Luego, analizamos
producciones culturales contemporáneas que implementan el lenguaje no
binario a través del uso de neomorfemas (e.g. “x,” “e,” etc.) para elaborar
cómo esta práctica demuestra una alianza amplia. Considerando la cita de
Audre Lorde que no hay una jerarquía de la opresión, argumentamos que les
disidentes sexogenériques se resisten al binarismo de género como
confrontación directa a la colonialidad del poder.

*Facilitadores: Euge Stumm y Ben Papadopolous*

Para asistir al taller, por favor registrese en:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/gender-inclusive-language-history-and-the-struggle-against-colonialism-tickets-1811037504929
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