Reivindico mi Derecho a Ser un Monstruo by Susy Shock
my attempt at translating the text that inspired their look under the cut
I claim my right to be a monster, neither man nor woman, nor XXY nor H2O. I, monster of my desires, flesh in every one of my brush strokes, blue canvas of my body, painter of my path, I don't want more titles to bear, don't want more charges nor boxes to fit in, nor the fair name that any science has saved for me
I, butterfly unconnected to modernity, to postmodernity, to normality. Oblique, twisted, silvestre, artisanal, poetress of the savage, with the hummus of my singing, with the rainbow of my singing, with my wingbeat, claim my right to be a monster and let others be what's Normal.
The Vatican of the Normal, the 'I believe in God's Creed and Virgin Mary Normal, the pastors and the sheep's of the Normal. The honorable congress of the laws of what is Normal. The old Larousse* of the Normal
I only carry the lights of my matches, the face of my eyes, the tact of what's been heard and the wasp-like gesture of kissing, I'll have one obscene breast of the most whorish moon to my waist, and the erect penis of the dirty larks, and 7 moles, claim my right to be a monster, 77 moles, no what am I thinking, 777 moles is my evil will to create.
My beautiful monstrosity, my army of inventress, of whore of the pigeons. My being so alike, so amongst all these domesticated beings, so amongst these intrusive hairs. Another new title to bear: Restroom of ladies? Or gents? Or new corners to create.
I, trans... pirating*, wet, nauseating, germ of the enchanted aurora, the one that doesn't ask permission anymore and is rabid with mayan light, epic lights, pariah lights. Menstruals, Marlenes, Sacayanas*, bizarres. Without bibles, without tables, without geography, without anything at all. Only my vital right to be a monster, or however you want to call me, or however I turn out, however my desires and fucking wants find me.
My right to explore myself, to reinvent myself, to make of my mutation my noble trade. To summer, autumn and winter: hormones, ideas, the muscles and all my soul. Amen.
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*the larousse is a dictionary editorial idk if it's used everywhere but i can at least attest the spanish version is very popular
*trans-pirating is a riff of tranpirating but also the second half would be pirada, which means crazy (so trans-crazed)
*i am not sure who does suzy refer here to marlenes (marlene what? dietrich? i mean, maybe, she did like to crossdress) but diana sacayan was one of the most if not the most important trans women right activist in argentina, she was murdered in 2015 and the sentence of the perpetrator was the first time the death of a trans person was recognized as a hate crime by argentinian law
