The figure of Medusa has historically been used to generate awareness about what is normal, to warn of the dangers of vulnerability, to avoid masculine independence, and to relate to rare body forms. Medusa is the embodiment of dissent, of those who flee from the normative system. Her representation turns relationships into a strange procedure and difference into a system of exclusion contrary to learning by contagion. However, history has used only one part of the mythology of this group of beings called Gorgons to construct a morality that sustains one of the infinite foundations of cisheteropatriarchal reality. What does history ignore? What hopeful and vulnerable stories does the mythology of these beings hide?<\/p>\n
There is a process of infection and deterritorialization that calls attention to itself but is silenced and which begins with the mourning of Medusa\u2019s sisters. According to mythology, Medusa dies at the hands of Perseus, who cuts her head off guided by the hands of the goddess Athena and with the help of a mirrored shield with which he can look at the Gorgon indirectly without turning to stone (fig. 1). After her death, her sisters mourn her eternally (fig. 2). This pain could never be expressed with a great historical gesture. Excluded from the power of visual representation, of the system of reason, and of a homogeneous, virile corporality, they were not able to build a monument, write a great epic or start a great war against the molar state. Medusa\u2019s sisters, in their community far from the normative construction of reality but so close to it that with their silent scream they infect it, refuse to start a war with the visual tools of men: they will simply continue to cry. These are subaltern bodies that have created a community not formed by genealogical ties, witches that inhabit a space of constant transformation, insects that become humans, animals or vegetables. They inhabit the interstices of the binary codes that have served the sovereign domination and exploitation of experience objectified by the cisheterovisual man, white and self-centered. As Donna Haraway says: \u201cThe Gorgons are powerful winged chthonic entities, without a proper genealogy, their scope is lateral and tentacular, they have no established lineage nor any reliable type (of sexual genres), nor artistic or literary genres)\u201d.[1]<\/sup><\/a>\u00a0DONNA HARAWAY, Seguir<\/em> con el problema<\/em>, 2019, p. 91.<\/span><\/span>