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PachaQueer: gender terrorists
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PachaQueer: gender terrorists
Copyright David Diaz 2024
Updated Nov 2023
Location Quito, Ecuador
Topics Spotlight
PachaQueer is a collective that, for ten years, has been working for the rights of trans people, transvestites, LGBTQ+, and dissidents in Ecuador.
 
Formed by activists La Mota and La Coca who define themselves as “radical activists, gender terrorists” they have created this space as a self-managed hotbed of community education, performance, politics, and Andean worldview. It is also a shelter and transitional help house for trans people in vulnerable situations.
 
Its activities are based on the human philosophy of covering hunger as a basic need. “People who have not felt hungry will always be uncomfortable with a popular soup kitchen,” says Coca. Community pots are an activity that is based on comprehensive participation between society and trans people, bringing food to at-risk populations or popular festivities.
 
Over the years, they have participated in artistic and educational meetings inside and outside the country such as Monstra Cabaret - between democracy and other fallacies, performance at the NYU Hemispheric Institute, in Mexico City 2019 or the Second Transborder Festival of Politics and Performance, Berlin 2023 among others.
 
They have created a space that uses artistic transformation, counterculture, and education as tools to promote bodily emancipation and the liberation of thoughts, helping to build a more inclusive and respectful society.

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PachaQueer es un colectivo que, desde hace diez años viene trabajando por los derechos de las personas trans, travestis, LGBTQ y disidencias en Ecuador.
 
Formado por las activistas La MoTa y La Coca quienes se auto definen como “activistas radicales, terroristas del género” han creado este espacio como un semillero auto gestionado de educación comunitaria, performance, política y cosmovisión andina. También es un refugio y  una casa transitoria de ayuda para personas trans en situaciones de vulnerabilidad.
 
Sus actividades se basan en la filosofía humana de cubrir el hambre como una necesidad básica “Las personas que no han sentido hambre, siempre les incomodara una olla popular” dice Coca. Las ollas comunitarias son una actividad que se basa en la participación integral entre la sociedad y las personas trans llevando comida a población en riesgo o festividades populares.
 
A lo largo de los años, han participado en encuentros artísticos y de educación dentro y fuera del país como Monstra Cabaret- entre democracia y otras falacias, performance en el Instituto Hemisférico de la NYU, en Ciudad de México 2019 o el Segundo Festival Transfronterizo de Política y Performance, Berlín 2023 entre otros más.
 
Han creado un espacio que utiliza la transformación artística, la contracultura y la educación como herramientas para promover la emancipación corporal y la liberación de pensamientos ayudando a construir una sociedad más inclusiva y respetuosa.

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