ABSTRACT
Transfeminism is an open invitation to deconstruct the foundations, intellectual underpinnings, and reproductive mechanisms of gender-based social oppression and patriarchal hegemony, while imagining and implementing subversive and freedom-oriented strategies at the "glocal" level. One of the most visible figures of transfeminism in the Latin American context is the Mexican philosopher, poet and performer Sayak Valencia (Margarita Valencia Triana). Born in Tijuana, Valencia is currently a researcher at the local Colegio de la Frontera Norte, appointed to the department of cultural studies. The emancipatory stance of feminism is so re-dimensioned by transfeminism by questioning its fundamental binary structure as much as the social, sexual, and psychological practices that sustain it. Valencia's intervention in the field of feminism is also founded on a "glocalized" position, being more interested in how transfeminismo has been used in Spain and Latin America, given its rich manifestation in artistic and performance events.
