El teatro palpable: estrategias queer de resistencia contra la toponormatividad

Abstract

This article departs from a critical approach to what I call the antierotic turn within Queer Studies —which, in the last years, seems to have left aside debates addressing eroticism, physicality and desire to focus on a different set of questions that go beyond sexuality. The text offers a conciliation between these post-erotic debates and the original physical approach of queer epistemologies through the analysis of theatrical and performative events that have recently taken place in non-conventional spaces in several Spanish cities, as a response to the economic crisis that the country has suffered since 2008. The article suggests the concept toponormativity as a term that addresses non-normative occupations of spaces and addresses how theatrical and performative pieces can question the aforementioned toponormativity and propose different ways to understand and occupy urban spaces