Alianzas salvajes

Abstract

In recent years, the perspectives of political minorities committed to a critical, plural and intersectional antispeciesism have been increasingly visible. These perspectives invite us to rethink how the category of "animality" has been a place under which those bodies defined as appropriable and that can be discarded, namely, queer, lesbian, bisexual, intersex, indigenous, trans*, black, sick, peasant, fat, psychodiverse, non-humans-animals, and other subalternized existences and bodies. Even so, some animalist movements show difficulties in addressing the conexions between the animal liberation movement and other anti-oppressive perspectives, or, in the case of doing so, start from abstract and reductionist analogical comparisons that reproduce the most varied forms of oppression. Given this scenario, this article aims to show the relevance of thinking about a decolonial, anti-racist, anti-ableist and transfeminist animalism that opens spaces for multiple forms of life, subjectivities and other bodies. To this end, the framework of the intersection between critical animal studies, transfeminisms, decolonial critiques and disability studies will show that a structural understanding of speciesism allows access to a more comprehensive perspective on the ways in which it is it intersects and links with non-identical logics of gendering, racialization and ableism. Finally, based on the notion of "wild alliances' formed to make visible the importance of configuring common resistance between different political struggles, in order to create the conditions to think and articulate of more livable worlds for political minorities, including other animals.