The transvestite aesthetic revolution in Bolivian popular festivals

Abstract

We are bodies that have written a political history of vindication and public visibility with the taconeado dance, making our way through the winding streets of the party, like someone opening the way to freedom. We have lived years of applause and also of prohibitions, recognitions and exclusions. In this text I invite you to walk through a few moments of this conquest, from the irreverence and the challenge to the power of transvestite bodies against dictatorships, to the queer reconquest of the party as a political space of public visibility. On this tour we will find a constellation of names and daring, as a tribute to these creators, who made their bodies political weapons of disobedience.