ABSTRACT
This chapter offers an analysis of selected examples of contemporary feminist and LGBTQ comics in Chile. These comics are approached according to Nelly Richard’s idea of intersectional feminism as a miniaturized plane of the collective unconscious where activists and artists can work to promote change and empowerment. Works by Melina Rapimán, Yaritza Aguilera, and Gabriel Ebensperger are presented as cultural products that press against heteronormativity and offer a popular culture space where queer experiences are visualized. These analyses are contextualized within the “Year of Fury” against LGBTQ activists in Chile and the eruption of what has been called the Feminist May of 2018. The comics Hambre Prístina, Acid Rain, and Gay Gigante are read as interrogations of a violent hetero-patriarchy that reaches back into Chile’s military dictatorship (1973-1990) and as works that reorganize and re-present Chile as a gay giant that will no longer hide.
