Traumaturgy

Essay
2023

Traumaturgy consists of a kind of fragmented position that with the help of promiscuous narration, taking as its point of departure desire and inspiration, can create stories that make room for pleasure, where violence can be present but does not dictate who you are and where a narrow, frozen, restricted state of being can be expanded and turned into a more dynamic movement.

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A place that holds an ambivalence that has to do with trans, the experience of being trans and of living with society’s skewed ideas about what authentic gender is. The experience of having a body, a form that does not correspond to the exterior, and at the same time ex- pressing what is inside us as delicately as we do. The experience of trauma and of being fragmented. All these experiences together with the extraordinary desire to feel alive and feel unity. Another word for fragmented could be the possibility to hold complexity, which is an incredibly beautiful skill.