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La ciencia ficción travesti entrega elementos para distinguir la mirada sobre nosotras mismas de las miradas que nos fueron impuestas, violentándonos. La ciencia ficción travesti no impone, no cancela, no grita, no dice qué hacer (p. 16).
Like Wendy in Peter Pan, people find new walls springing up (...): every encounter (…) erects new closets whose fraught and characteristic laws of optics and physics exact from at least gay people new surveys, new calculations, new draughts and requisitions of secrecy or disclosure (p. 10).
“We should not, we must not, blame those who have been silenced or are compliant with their own oppression for not being brave enough. But nor should we end up in a place where talking about the sex and gender of authors is deemed irrelevant”
In halting Spanish, Yolanda reports on her sisters. When she reverts to English, she is scolded, "¡En español" The more she practices, the sooner she'll be back into her native tongue, the aunts insist. Yes, and when she returns to States, she'll find herself suddenly going blank over some word in English or, like her mother, mixing up some common phrase. This time, however, Yolanda is not so sure she'll be going back. But that is a secret.