Glosaria 2022
Collaboration with Lorena Wolffer through DISIDENTA: Community of Social Practice + Feminist Knowledge
GLOSARIA (GLOSSARY) DISSECTS THE WORDS OF CONTEMPORARY TRANSFEMINISMS
What is the language of transfeminisms? What words do we use to see ourselves, recognize ourselves, name ourselves, our struggles, ideas, and positions? What happens if we put some of these words under a magnifying glass to examine them, explore their different meanings and uses, their points of fracture and cohesion, and the tensions that crystallize in these words?
Glosaria (Glossary) dissects the words of contemporary transfeminisms. We begin with the need to understand and reconsider language, placing it at the center of our struggles to recognize our differences and otherness. Together, we aim to build a living, elastic, and flexible glossary, one that can be rethought and intervened time and again, allowing us to debate and reinvent ourselves.
Glossary had three distinct outcomes:
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A podcast series
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An intervention in public spaces
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A postcard box
Interventions on billboards and screens in Mexico City.
Presentation(s)
Billboards
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Community: Insurgentes Centro 121, Colonia San Rafael, Alcaldía Cuauhtémoc, CDMX
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Citizenship: Hamburgo 71, Colonia Juárez, Alcaldía Cuauhtémoc, CDMX
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Care: Insurgentes Centro, between Paseo de la Reforma and Nápoles, Colonia Juárez, Alcaldía Cuauhtémoc, CDMX
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Feminisms and Anti-Patriarchal Struggles: Insurgentes Centro 114, Colonia Tabacalera, Alcaldía Cuauhtémoc, CDMX
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Justice: Av. México – Tenochtitlán 24, Colonia Guerrero, Alcaldía Cuauhtémoc, CDMX
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Social Practice: Viena 26, corner with Roma, Colonia Juárez, Alcaldía Cuauhtémoc, CDMX
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Feelings and Affections: Belgrado 13, Colonia Juárez, Alcaldía Cuauhtémoc, CDMX
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Reciprocity: Niza 45, Colonia Juárez, Alcaldía Cuauhtémoc, CDMX
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Representation and Representativity: Insurgentes Norte, corner with Héroes Ferrocarrileros, Colonia Santa María la Ribera, Alcaldía Cuauhtémoc, CDMX
Screens
Questions 1: Paseo de la Reforma 202, Colonia Juárez, Alcaldía Cuauhtémoc, CDMX
Questions 2: Paseo De La Reforma 130, Colonia Juárez, Alcaldía Cuauhtémoc, CDMX
Year
2022
Participants
Alexandra R DeRuiz, Bianca Pérez, Daniela Herrera/Le Petit Riot, Daniela Rea, Daphtne Cuevas, David Gutiérrez Castañeda, Emanuela Borzacchiello, Ivonne Jiménez, Julia Antivilo, Julia Didriksson, Jessica Marjane, Kenya Cuevas, Liz Misterio, Meritxell Calderón Vargas, Mónica Mayer, Nadia Cortés, Pilar Muriedas, Raquel Gutiérrez Aguilar & Sayuri Herrera
Collaborators
Glossary is a project realized in collaboration with Cerrucha from DISIDENTA: Community of Social Practice + Feminist Knowledge
Credits
Design
Fer Zendejas
Photography
Cerrucha
Podcast
Guest Coordinator
Claudia Aréchiga
Advisor and Head Guide
Elvira Liceaga
Information Systematization + Feminist Editor
Yuruén Lerma
Song Alzo la voz
La Cuervo
Production
Vandi Media
Public Space Intervention
Production
Claudia Vásquez Ortuño
Communication + Social Media
Natalí Olac-Farfán
Postcard Box
Editing
Vanessa López
Printing and Production
Su Yin Wong
Photographic Record
Cerrucha
Natalí Olac-Farfán
Acknowledgments
The initial idea for a feminist glossary was proposed by María Renée Prudencio during a DISIDENTA meal in Morelos—thank you from the bottom of our hearts.