Queer Linguistics in Dialogue with Critical Disability Studies in Latin America. Queer, cuir, cuy(r) or (possibly) cuis. Review of the study by García León and García León

Abstract

García León and García León (2021) propose a study in which they explain what queer theory is about, what its genealogy is and what potential its appropriation would have for the investigation of Latin American reality from a critical, decolonial and intersectional perspective. In particular, they focus on the case analysis of the linguistic-discursive representations around the figure of a disabled trans woman in the Colombian media. In the following review, we retrace the path that leads the authors to reaffirm the need to question ableist and cis-heteronormative representations in order to give voice to the reality of multiple dissident subjectivities, paying special attention to the possibilities that this research opens up by linking two theoretical-methodological perspectives: queer linguistics and critical disability studies.