Editorial
Torciendo las filas Twisting the rows Hay palabras que convocan y que hacen temblar. En las siguientes páginas desfilarán imágenes que, desde diferentes posiciones, tiempos y territorios, muestran una pequeña parte de la cultura queer y su relación con la fotografía. Queer convoca a un conjunto de disidencias de género y sexuales, que, desde sus diferencias, crean alianzas para redefinir las construcciones sociales y políticas que encorsetan sus cuerpos. Realidades diversas que han sido históricamente perseguidas e invisibilizadas y que, a través de la fotografía, han encontrado modos de interrogar la historia y generar la suya propia. Modos de contarse a sí mismes y de ir construyendo un extenso archivo que documente sus existencias y resistencias. Formas de trazar genealogías que se extienden a través del tiempo y que continúan ampliándose en la actualidad. Queer, más allá de consolidarse como una identidad cerrada, actúa como verbo. Queer nos habla de ruptura, de desplazamiento, de cuestionamiento, de ira, de placer y de deseo. Nos habla de agencias colectivas que tratan de construir mundos propios. Lo queer es un eslabón crítico que recoge y amplía las genealogías feministas y que cuestiona el pensamiento binario en su conjunto. Lo queer
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EDITORIAL
Certain words grab our attention and have the power to make us tremble. The following pages contain images that, from a variety of stances, times and regions, give a glimpse into queer culture and its relationship with photography. Queer brings together a group of gender and sexual dissenters, who, through their differences, forge alliances that redefine the social and political constructions that impose constraints on their bodies. Theirs are diverse realities that have long been persecuted and rendered invisible and which, by means of photography, have come up with ways of questioning history and generating their own. Ways of telling their own stories and building an extensive archive that documents their existence and resistance. Ways of tracing lineages that go back through time and continue to expand and grow in the present. As well as being established as a closed identity, queer also operates as a verb. Queer talks to us of rupture, displacement, questioning, rage, pleasure and desire. It talks to us of collective agencies that seek to build their own worlds. Queer is a critical link that takes and extends feminist lineages and questions binary thinking as a whole. Queer shakes imaginations and questions the superficial stereotypes to which these bodies are often exposed. Through the medium of photography, they create their own images out of celebration, pleasure and irreverence, though also out of wounds and the harshness, precariousness and various forms of violence that condition their lives.
