Coketa

Research and dissemination group on transvestite thought and body. We work with the familiarity of three concepts: transvestism, politics and art. Because historically transvestites have had to do it alone. As Marlene Wayar says: we are our first art object. Against all odds, we build community, identity, gender, names, houses, families, laws, memory. We want to think about this collective resistance, about the transvestite persistence that has allowed us to exist. We are interested in generating coordination, articulation and political discussion meetings between travestis.

A platform for transvestite artistic, cultural, sexual and social promotion and production.  Processes that contribute economically and symbolically to informal transvestite economies. With redistribution of economic, symbolic and material resources. All those who can contribute CONTENTION OF TRAVESTIS projects. We do not want to be part of inclusion as an exercise of violence and colonial assimilation. We do not want to be part of the usual logics of representation and tokenisation. We want to build a real space for the production of transvestite knowledge, to be present to account for the political, artistic and social value of our political alliances. And we want these bodies to be valued in terms of reparation and not in terms of guilt. We wonder if the Santa Monica will be able to contain an assembly of transvestites. Bearing in mind that transvestites have had to create our own museums.

Claudia Rodriguez writes that being a travesti implies being a wasteland. This is intended to be our working methodology. Transvestite political thought and practice based on encounters for the production of transvestite knowledge/sapience. A thought and a body that distrusts collective methodologies because they always speak from institutional protocols that are universalising, objectifying, measurable, pathologising, biologising, binary, quantifiable, possible to be quoted, invoiced, capitalised in papers, conferences, study groups.