DISCAPACIDAD Y SEXUALIDAD DESDE UNA PERSPECTIVA DECOLONIAL. ELEMENTOS “METODOLÓGICOS” PARA SU ANÁLISIS

Abstract

Introduction Feeling "disability" in its conjunction with "sexuality" from the framework of the decolonial perspective has invited us to make several openings in our horizons of senses. It is a questioning theme for the modern-colonial logics of being, knowledge and power, as it puts in tension the normative institutes of that rationality and the ways of concretizing it in daily life. (Method)From the decolonial perspective, we deployed from a decolonizing process (“investigative process”), which invited us to go through adecolonial make (“methodology”) in which we were all participants, without “dominion hierarchies” (Maldonado -Torres, 2008), through decolonial actions/traces (“techniques”) such as communal contemplating, alterative conversation, and configurative reflection (Ortiz and Arias, 2019). These were leading us to other ways of generating knowledge from our plural knowledge before a theme that was already challenging in itself. These decolonial actions/traces allowed us to put our plural knowledge into play as plural beings. (Results) Through this paper, we want to share "methodological" elements of the decolonial perspective for the materialization of knowledge in Latin-American Social Sciences. (Conclusions) From the new decolonial perspective, specifically the Latin American one, we are moving through other ways of knowing reality without "extractivism" or "ethnoanalytics" typical of modern colonial reason. Relocating ourselves in these frameworks leads us to more powerful situated processes, in collaboration, respecting our plural knowledge. We use italics and quotation marks as a political act of enunciation, as well as the "e" that transcends the generic masculine and modern colonial binarisms.