La virgen de los Remedios conoce a Bahuchara Mata: transfeminismo descolonial a través de la biografía de Rosario Miranda y otras experiencias hijras

Abstract

At first level this essay focuses on bringing up the life of a Canarian transwoman and, at a second, it concentrates on reconciling two colonial discourses. This essay starts by drawing a small draft on the life of Rosario Miranda, as a trans woman in rural Tenerife. This section is complemented by a brief introduction that aims to contextualize the LGTBQ+ scene in post-Franco Canaries. At the same time, we pose a brief analysis that pinpoints common experiences between Rosario and the hijra community through an iconoclastic analysis that brings together the images of Bahuchara Mata and la virgen de los Remedios. Drawing on the decolonial writing of María Lugones (2010), our final discussion presents a series of subversive possibilities that result from the performative dynamics within the gender binary paradigm.