Runways and ‘Perolones’: Transformationist Mediations on the Avenue of the Liberator in Caracas

For decades, transformationist Venezuelans have ‘paraded’ along the Avenue of the Liberator in Caracas to exhibit themselves and exercise their trade as sex workers. In Venezuela, the word “transformationist” refers to a persona assigned the masculine sex who occupies the female gender. This essay i...

• Main Author: Ochoa, Marcia (author)
• Format: article
• Language: spa
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: Transformationists; queer of color; modernity; Venezuela.; Transformistas; Modernidad; Venezuela; Transforms; Queer of color; Modernity
• Online Access: https://iconos.flacsoandes.edu.ec/index.php/iconos/article/view/749