The proposed thesis revolves around the politics of desire: the empowerment in sexual orientation as an historical construction. A comparative study of two indigenous ritual celebrations. One is a gay quiche beauty pageant that takes place in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala, the Umial Tinimit Gay Re Xelaju Noj. The other is the Vela de de las Auténticas Intrépidas Buscadoras del Peligro, which takes place in Juchitán, Mexico.
The manin purpose is the study of how bodily practices are able to deconstruct and transform hegemonic power relations and sex in our bodies and territories; understanding the desire as the motor that make these processes take place.
The thesis is a comparation of the strategies used by this indigenous communities to challenge and overcome the heterosexual matrix; Comparing the relations of power and domination that affect our bodies in the context of two particular countries.
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