Narrating transvestite constellations: Naty Menstrual’s Continuadísimo

Abstract

This article analyses the short stories in Naty Menstrual’s Continuadísimo (2008), identifying the themes that structure the narratives. By examining the repetition of themes such as violence, drug use and disease, reinforced by dirty language, the study shows how Menstrual’s writing destabilises normative discourses on gender, sexuality and power. The transvestite trash aesthetic proposed by the author constructs a grotesque poetics of excess that transforms exclusion into a space of radical resistance. The representation of violence is not simply structural oppression, it becomes a mechanism of agency and retaliation that redefines the limits of intelligibility imposed on dissident groups. Similarly, the insistence on filth, bodily fluids and bodily decomposition undermines hegemonic ideals of purity and inserts the abject into a counter-narrative that claims its destructive power. Drug use is not only a symptom of exclusion, but is also seen as a performative practice that allows the protagonist to construct his or her own reality outside the normative frameworks of pleasure and identity.