We lesbians exist and we are everywhere: The lesbian voice in the counter-narratives of sex-dissident memories in Buenos Aires

Abstract

This article aims to investigate the construction of the lesbian voice in the Argentine sex-dissident activism located at the end of the last civic-military dictatorship and the democratic transition. The politicization of sexual identity will give rise to the lesbian as a political subject that fissures the regimes of heterocispatriarchal and feminist intelligibility. In alliance with the homosexual movements, lesbians built a place of enunciation that denounced the pathologization, violence and social stigma on bodies and
practices insubordinate to the social mandate; at the same time that they claimed a desiring existence in a still oppressive context marked by the end of the last civic-military dictatorship.The archival work on the analyzed counter-memory devices, from the body-desire and writing triad, allowed to investigate the representations of desire, the erotic disobedient, to make visible the role of affective communities as political and theoretical power for the lesbian feminist movements of The time. We worked on the
Lesbian Existence Notebooks and the digitized Archive of lesbian activism "Tortilla Power" from a discursive analysis as an analytical tool that would allow to account for representations, constructions of enunciators, ethos, discursive memories.The construction of a lesbian voice, as an individual instance of deep return to subjectivity and a collective encounter with others, allows to claim a desiring and transgressive existence.