{"id":36627,"date":"2022-06-06T07:00:16","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T05:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/a-desk.org\/?p=36627"},"modified":"2023-07-09T14:44:41","modified_gmt":"2023-07-09T12:44:41","slug":"four-announcements-for-a-queer-bestiary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/a-desk.org\/en\/magazine\/four-announcements-for-a-queer-bestiary\/","title":{"rendered":"Four announcements for a Queer Bestiary"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome to the first seance session of Queer Beastiary. Feel free to hold our hand as we take you on a transhistorical, transgender, transgressive, transspecies, transcultural, transponder, transformative and transborder journey through the overwhelming power of some fantastic images that have been whispering in our ear for a while. From here on, we will act as mediums and let all those creatures we see speak through the hypersensitive bodies in which we live and with which we claim our right to be monsters<\/a><\/span>. Shhh, silence. Hold on tight, we can almost hear them now. Four riders on horseback are approaching, announcing a bestial apocalypse.<\/p>\n

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Three typologies of sirens from the Indian Ocean contained in the Catalan-Estense world map, c.1460. Modena, Estense University Library.<\/p><\/div>\n

We doused all the ropes with water so that when you try to tie yourselves to the mast, the ropes rot and you succumb to our chorus of radical tenderness<\/span><\/a>. You represented us as threatening hybrids in epic tales, on carved columns, and in all kinds of atlases and maps. You have pinned us down, classified us and sentenced us to the abyss to try to protect yourselves from the wild possibility of becoming a mere threshold. Siren-bird, siren-fish, siren-centaur. Ah, but friends, everyone knows that fear is the flip side of fascination and curiosity. Whenever we can, we lean over a cliff to feel a sense of nausea. That is why we want to inhabit a bestiary, for this type of medieval illustration, a seemingly tranquil classification, displays at the same time the wonder of their authors, that is, their desire to seek shadows, territories where, once again, everything we fear and desire happens. And we sirens are full of desire, which is why we long to be part of a bestiary that not only embraces the wonder of its authors, but also instils enchantment in its readers. When you open the volumes of a bestiary, you are moved by the excitement of discovering blurred territories, of mutating and evolving bodies, invisible creatures that reveal themselves. What a joy, for finally we can sing together with our beautiful trans-siren sisters: L\u00eda Garc\u00eda<\/a><\/span>, the siren bride; Coco Guzm\u00e1n<\/a><\/span>, the siren with a mustache, big tits and uneven nipples; Linn da Quebrada<\/a><\/span>, the asphalt siren; or Daze Jefferies<\/a><\/span>\u00a0and\u00a0Celeste Gonz\u00e1lez<\/a><\/span>, Atlantic Ocean sirens. We don\u2019t want to drown nor to take you down, either, we want to share our humidity and a much more fluid world, like the one that our sisters, the hermaphrodites, have always created.<\/em><\/p>\n

We are hermaphrodites on horseback, and we have trotted around the world in non-binary narratives and androgynous, organic, hybrid bodies. We were born from an embrace, from the limitless mud and the sunny night, but then you cut us down, split us in half, and sent the rebel angels to hell. And that has always been your punishment and your sentence. Until now, when we are summoned again: Laura Vila Kremer riding on stages, Mer G\u00f3mez organizing fallen angels, Del Lagrace Vulcano preparing attacks, Breyer P-Orridge and Forrest Bess becoming original bodies. \u201cWe are a horde of hermaphrodites on horseback. Within our panties we have a landscape that grows, expands, dilates, that transforms everything. Our bodies, intersex bodies, hack the binary structure of the world. Our bodies multiply the possibilities of desire. They make it flexible. They melt it. They transform it. And to transform desire is to transform the world. So I ask: What will happen if we do it?\u201d [1]<\/sup><\/a>Fragment from the theatrical work Hermafroditas a caballo o la rebeli\u00f3n del deseo<\/a><\/span>\u00a0(Hermaphrodites on Horseback or The Rebellion of Desire), created by the collective Que no salga de aqu\u00ed.<\/span><\/span>