Hospitality of the Anus (or When Will We Learn to Play Dirty?)

Abstract

In this article I argue the potential for the anus to become a hospitable site for political resistance and symbolic reparation. In order to lay out the ways in which this hospitality can be performed, and how it can amount to an emancipatory ethics, I look to two representatives of what we could call a queer theory from the streets. That is, a queer theory that emerges from peripheral spaces, through unorthodox means, and from urgency of sexual, artistic and activist cravings. This queer theory bypasses the rules and regulations that tend to govern academic protocols and is here represented by Brazilian trans rapper Linn da Quebrada and Spanish philosopher Paco Vidarte. Both, like myself, recognize the necessity to speak in the first person if one is to stress one’s subjective position, expose the borderlessness between work and worker, and refuse to be a spokesperson for a group.