ABSTRACT
This chapter presents an interdisciplinary methodology for decolonial and transhistorical readings of the complex gender and sexual identities found in colonial Latin American and Caribbean sources. The case study focuses on the Andean region and the queer/cuir subjects maligned in chronicles and archives as “sodomites” and demonstrates that in the pre-Hispanic and colonial eras there were alternative/third/transgender identities with important roles in their societies, a history also being recovered by contemporary trans people in visual and performance art, which becomes a decolonial praxis that critically engages with the colonial legacies and scholarship that inform their work.
