Feminist Research Institute at UNM, Albuquerque, NM (2026)

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This talk examines visual tactics of survival and resistance that tr****tis and trans folks developed in response to military surveillance, violence, and detention during Argentine dictatorship (1976-83) and into democracy. To do so, I draw on ethnographic fieldwork with trans and tr****ti survivors of concentration camps and the contemporary artistic work of artist Germán Menna on carceral photography and studio portraiture. In doing so, the talk surfaces choreographies of survival that tr****tis and trans women developed to escape visual and carceral capture. As I suggest, these shared repertoires of resistance likewise surface submerged state structures of violence and terror against which tr****tis and trans women struggled, revising how we understand fascist state violence and its targets with consequences for US trans studies.
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Dr. Cole Rizki is an Assistant Professor of Latin American Studies (University of Virginia) and currently an ACLS Fellow for his monograph-in-process “Travesti Tide: Trans Politics Beyond Liberalism,” which examines Argentine tr****ti-trans politics and aesthetics to establish an historical and cultural interpretation of trans politics as a response to illiberal state violence and its forms. Rizki is invited guest editor of NACLA special issue on trans activisms (2025); co-editor of TSQ special issue “Trans Studies en las Américas” (2019); and TSQ’s Translation Section editor. His work appears in Journal of Visual Culture, Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, Balam, and Radical History Review among others.