Zona de desmadre code#

Moreover, we organized a feminist burlesque workshop (taught by then NYC-based artist Old Ma Femme) from which our cabaret troupe was born. The party-organizing endeavour, which we considered a political project of spatial and economic justice, quickly took off and began to spawn other activities like creating a music and poetry stage show, reporting (on a volunteer basis) for local gay press and an internet radio talk show.

Zona de desmadre code#

A macha simply “gets” they are a macha they participate in our code and relajo. Our touchstone for considering someone a macha is their queer complicity. In our world, we appropriated the term and made it intentionally malleable: macha(s) can refer to women in general butch women and gay men feminine people including gay men lesbians in general feminists, allies of any gender, ourselves, our party guests, friends, lovers, etc. Macha comes from marimacha which is a mainly derogatory way to refer to butch women/lesbians in Mexico. Our aim was to have events that combined the warmth and familiarity of a house party with a publicly available invitation open to an audience of machas and their friends. We were restless and eager to participate in nightlife with other queer women, and available choices were simply unsatisfying.Įven if, historically, lesbian house parties in Mexico City have been central to queer women’s sociality (and always guaranteed fun) we hoped to create something more regular that did not require being in-the-know. At the same time, we could not get enough of it, literally. We found the options were not only few, but often unattractive, economically inaccessible, and/or misogynist and lesbophobic. We launched this project because the existing nightlife for lesbians in Mexico City was bleak. In late 2005, a small group of friends that I was a part of in my hometown of Mexico City, began to collectively organize lesbian and queer women’s parties. Nightlife in the margin of the margins: Feminized communities within sexual dissidence