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CONTRERAS RUVALCABA, Gerardo. The Dilemma of the Penitentiary Body: Trans Corporality in the Colombian Prison System. Isonomía [online]. 2020, n.52, pp.63-97.  Epub 02-Jun-2021. ISSN 1405-0218.  https://doi.org/10.5347/isonomia.v0i52.283.

In 2016, the Colombian's National Penitentiary and Prison Agency (INPEC) reformed the prison regulation to add anti-discrimination measures in favor of the LGBT population. Recognizing the disciplinary function of the prison complex, this text will analyze the INPEC’s rule through a queer approach to law, proposed by Dean Spade. This study argues that anti-discrimination measures of INPEC establish a dynamic effect on trans people deprived of freedom’s right to free development of personality. The result is due to that the prison reform is a triumph to LGBT activism as well as it perpetuates a binary and essentialist discourse of sexuality. The article aims to expose that anti-discrimination reform of INPEC is a queer law: a technique degrading and protecting, at unison and in a contradictory way, the trans life.

Palavras-chave : trans corporality; prison system; right to free development of personality; anti-discrimination; vulnerability; queer theory.

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