Life Trajectories, Political Trajectories: Situated Exercises of Embodied Politics

Abstract

This article is an invitation to rethink politics and the political, placing bodies as a pattern of enunciation. Corporalities do not shape themselves alone, power discourses (order, nourishment, beauty, desire, mobility, agency, subordination, repression) break through them. We constructed this thesis through life narrative, hand in hand with the Biographic Method (Sautu, 2004), with Situated Knowledge’s (Haraway, 1989) proposal for feminist research, and theoretically we followed on the footsteps of Decolonial Feminisms regarding their analysis of political identities and social movements (Flórez, 2010), and Transfeminism (Álvarez Castillo, 2014; Preciado, 2013; Solá, 2013; Sentamans, 2013). What does incarnating politics imply? Answering this question is the objective of this dialogue between three fellow artists and myself, positioning this situated body as the main pattern of enunciation.