The Aesthetic and Political Practices of Trans Women in Peru

Paola Patiño Rabines is a researcher with over nine years of consulting, research and cultural and social management experience, as well as extensive knowledge in the areas of multiculturalism, cultural management, education and gender studies in Peru. Some of her previous experience includes working as: Director of the School of Social Sciences at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru; independent consultant at the Sofia Group and Institute of Peruvian Studies; and consultant at the Place of Memory, Tolerance and Social Inclusion in Lima, Peru.

1. Introduction.- 2. Trans-Aesthetics and the Struggle for Recognition Politics Seen from a Decolonial Perspective.- 3. Thinking with and from Skins: Reflections on Methodology and Method in Ethnographic Research from the Encounter and Collaboration with Trans Women in Lima, Peru.- 4. Tracing the History of the Trans Movement in Lima, Peru.- 5. First and Second Skin: The Body as a Political-Aesthetic Territory.- 6. Third and Fourth Skin: Sexuality, Identity, and Power Relations.- 7. The Fifth Skin: Capitalism, Modernity/Coloniality and Patriarchy.- 8. Conclusions.