Escrituras del yo, escrituras de la nación: Facebook, literatura y activismo en Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro

Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro is a renowned Puerto Rican writer and activist for LGBTI rights and Afro-Caribbean communities. Her literature focuses on the portrait of queer subjectivities and the celebration of Afro-American identity. In this paper, I connect the different arenas in which the author corroborates her political engagement in order to propose a new perspective on autobiography as a literary genre, including such a paradigmatic platform for self-representation as Facebook. This strategy, in turn, is coherent with the author’s proposal, since it is founded on the creation of a network of support for vulnerable communities and on the defense of a deep decolonization. Accordingly, the analysis and visibility of different ways to represent bodies and subjectivities converge in a study that, ultimately, questions the parameters in which writing, genre and nation are founded and interconnected.

"Vestirme de hombre y montar a caballo". Androginia y mujer moderna en la novela autobiográfica "Oculto sendero", de Elena Fortún

The writer Elena Fortún (Madrid, 1886-1952) is famous for her paradigmatic fictional character for children: the imaginative, frisky Celia. This article aims to analyze the most alternative work of the author, Oculto camino, published for the first time in 2016 after decades hidden in a suitcase: the author did not want to have it published while she was alive. It is an autobiographical work where Fortún uses the character of the painter María Luisa Arroyo to talk about her own process of discovering a sexual orientation that an authoritarian mother, marriage and social pressure prevented her from fully living. This article studies the link between the concept of «modern woman» and the taking up of an androgynous aesthetic, based on the story of María Luisa.

De la Torre, Mario (ed.). La primavera rosa, Identidad cultural y derechos humanos LGBTI en el mundo. Barcelona: Editorial UOC, 2018. ISBN: 978-84-9180-105-4

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Prácticas disruptivas en la medicina regenerativa y la terapia celular: de la heteronormatividad de laboratorio a la emergencia de nuevas exclusiones bioeconómicas

Innovations in regenerative medicine and cell therapy have made possible multiple breakings in the laws and paradigms that determined the beginnings of 20th century biology. The destabilisation of categories and heteronormative dichotomies that demarcated this science made possible the irruption of studies that separated genetic research from sex. Even so, the current implementation of these techno-scientific developments produce other types of exclusion mechanisms we will analyse from a bio-economic point of view: from the reinforcement of the conditions of vulnerability of women donors, to the support of therapeutic promises that semiotically disconnect the contexts of uncertainty of these technologies or the implementation of a performative understanding of health in terms of individual consumption.