Learning how to embrace trans/feminisms and queer/cuir-ness in International Relations through art and creative methods
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poetry, Feminism, transfeminism, international relationsCopyright (c) 2024 J.C.D. Calderón, Francisca Calderón Melo, Paolo Axolotl
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Abstract
This translation into Spanish of an article written in English for the International Feminist Journal of Politics serves two transfeminist political purposes. The first is to reflect the multilingual nature of the process that produced this text. In particular, one of the authors does not speak English, so this translation gave them access to the article. In turn, the co-author's access to the content of the article gave the rest of us the opportunity to listen to their critique and to modify our words and our artwork according to their critique. We believe that the existence of a Spanish version will allow for a different kind of reader and viewer, and in turn allow us to listen to a different kind of interpellation and critique in Spanish. The second purpose is to respond to a dissatisfaction we have with what is written about the global politics of knowledge production outside the global North. The rest of the Spanish introduction and conclusion will be devoted to demonstrating this nonconformity through a critical reading of a book by French Professor Audrey Alejandro of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), based on J.C.D. Calderón's experience of the rejection of his poetry, and to making a neo-materialist and transfeminist methodological contribution to reflexive studies and the sociology of knowledge in the discipline through evidence from the archive of poetry rejections.
This article was originally published under the title Learning how to embrace trans/feminisms and queer/cuir-ness in International Relations through art and creative methods in the International Feminist Journal of Politics. The authors of the article are the same as the authors of this publication: J.C.D. Calderón, Francisca Calderón Melo, Paolo Axolotl and Zafo. This translation has been made with the permission of Taylor & Francis Ltd, https://www. tandfonline.com.
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