In support of 'El Paro Nacional', a movement protesting the conservative government, queer organizers are twerking and voguing for Colombia's future.
. “Another Black girl and myself proposed that we examine what colonial practices are still present in our collective that have been normalised in Colombia, which is a super racist country. We need to have these discussions within activist spaces, because at the end of the day nothing can safeguard us from continuing to promulgate a colonial mentality through certain attitudes. It makes me wonder — as a person who is trans, Black and a migrant — where my place is in this struggle.
Black trans women in Bogotá’s activist spaces fight double: against a conservative government that suppresses queer and trans bodies, and against the colonial roots of racism against Black and Indigenous individuals. It’s a struggle with a long way to go, one that comes with a demand not just to allow Black trans organisers to take up space and more actively shape the discussion, but to have their humanity and transness respected in a bigger context.
“I have a problem with the question of acceptance,” Pantera says. “Personally, and I’ve lived this and heard it from a lot of the other girls, we don’t want to be accepted — we want to be respected. I don’t make community aid groups to be ‘accepted’ and for others to try and coexist alongside me within their norms. I’m out here demanding respect, a respect that I have for any person regardless of sexual orientation, religion or any belief different from mine.
Within Colombia’s struggle against inequality, rising poverty and police violence, progressive youth and people of all ages must turn to their queer comrades for guidance as they carve a better future for Colombia. Queer and trans organizers in Bogotá continue to put themselves on the frontlines not just for their country, but for visibility, liberation and autonomy within their communities.
“There’s a saying here in Colombia: ‘If care is what you care about, take care of it yourself,’” LoMaasBello says. “And who else knows the needs and dynamics of a community other than the people in it?”
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