Los nudos de la memoria: activismos sexo-disidentes y de mujeres indígenas por una historia a contrapelo

Abstract

This article seeks to show the complex relationship between the memory policies and some re-reading from sex-dissident and indigenous women’s activisms in Argentina. First, we present the meaning of memory in the Argentinian context, considering the historical struggles of the human rights movements and how their demands became state policies during the Kirchnerist government. Second, from Julieta Kirkwood’s feminist knots notion, we analyze the refutation by certain activisms on “the” memory ―in singular―: regarding sex-dissident activism, we analyze the discourse of Ivanna Aguilera and Eugenio Talbot Wright. In the case of indigenous women activism, we examine the discourse of Moira Millán. Based on the analysis of the “30.400 disappeared people” in the first case, and the “double genocide” in the second case, we present how both claims assert time and space dimensions that invite to re-think memory. In this sense, we indicate that these reading against the grain can be understood as knots that, as living movements and new meaning productions, can expand the imagination about the political subjects in the political community.