Sideways Selves : Travesti and Joteria Struggles Across the Americas - PJ DiPietro

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Sideways Selves

Travesti and Joteria Struggles Across the Americas

By: PJ DiPietro

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Paperback | 22 July 2025

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How trans and non-binary networks engage in decoloniality across hemispheres. A deeply informed, theoretically rich work of inquiry and critique, Sideways Selves learns from two communities of migrants as they contest their marginalization under the colonial regime of gender-colonial because, as PJ DiPietro affirms, Indigenous and Afro-diasporic conceptions of embodiment have been displaced by the European-Christian order of gender. Following gender-nonconforming Aymara, Kolla, and mixed-race exiles in Buenos Aires and K'iche', Nahua, and Central American migrants in the San Francisco Bay Area, DiPietro takes stock of a collective, transnational effort to reimagine ideas of personhood and kinship that gender makes unthinkable. The communities DiPietro studies create new kinds of identities, collective and genderless in nature. Their ways of thinking and doing, though radical, are motivated by old wisdom, storytelling, healing, and religion-brujerIa, curanderismo, Voudoun, and other practices that colonialism, capitalism, and the nation-state have unsuccessfully tried to erase. In equal measures philosophical and ethnographic, Sideways Selves witnesses and listens as these displaced people-displaced from their homes and from the moral geography of the West-show us what a just, decolonial world could actually be.

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PJ DiPietro's work is daring, yet careful, deeply innovative, and highly ambitious. Their book is a tour de force that centers the non-translatable, nonbinary, complex state of being that Latin American and US Latinx gender fluid persons inhabit and illuminate. DiPietro is quite simply one of the most exciting, daring, and uniquely positioned philosophers and interdisciplinary hemispheric thinkers of their generation. This is inspiring, necessary, and visionary philosophy. - Laura E. Perez, University of California, Berkeley, author of Eros Ideologies: Writings on Art, Spirituality, and the Decolonial A paradigm-shifting and urgent contribution. Sideways Selves is a rare gem among scholarly texts: a study that shifts the ground of all of the fields in which it is embedded. This book asks us to reorient the whole apparatus of critical theory in and through trans studies; it stands to position DiPietro as a leader in feminisms in the hemisphere. - Carlos Ulises Decena, Rutgers University, author of Circuits of the Sacred: A Faggotology in the Black Latinx Caribbean

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