"There are many organizational strategies, and I sincerely believe they are valid. However, I find it interesting to see that there are strategies that insist on the State, while others seek to overcome institutionality, considering it violent, colonial, and hetero-cis-patriarchal, perhaps the latter is more in the realm of imagination, but I, as a mule and not a human, prefer to insist on the latter. Until the abolition of all forms of domination is a collective dream and an anti-colonial materiality that transforms our living conditions."

— Mikaelah Drullard, "The Problem of Travestis is Entirely Colonial: Rehearsing Fugitivity." https://thefunambulist.net/magazine/building-trans-communities/the-problem-of-travestis-is-entirely-colonial-rehearsing-fugitivity

#blacktransfeminism

"Against gender transitions, I propose gender marronage, which implies desiring not to be human, but rather marroons of the human, fugitives from humanity, which is always modern and colonial, always cis and white, and always for women and men, even when we desire to be trans women and trans men, we end up kidnapped in their coloniality of being (the latter concept is by Nelson Maldonado Torres). The CIStem prefers us to be trans women and men, rather than recognizing us as non-human travestis, that is, a thing-other, an ontology-other in fugitivity from its reproductive logics and progressive cis-humanity in colonialism. This fugitivity implies seeing all cognitive order as a problem that forces us to overcome seeing the State as a prison to be dismantled, therefore, we no longer fight for a passport or identification that says woman, but for the liberation of the colony in our bodies. We are no longer affected by TERF feminists (white or whitewashed trans-hating feminists) excluding us from their feminism, because the project is not one of inclusion in the modern theories of the female masters, but of travesti marronage, being travesti is not just a matter of gender here, it is a matter of desiring to be Caliban rather than women and men, gender marronage is ceasing to be human. Being women and men should already be a white people’s issue. We must leave becoming women to Deleuze and Guattari, we racialized women become maroons, mules, travestis… Gender marronage is not limited to the sex-gender experience, but to a deep understanding of the world, where the issue of gender cisbinarism is a whiteness issue."

— Mikaelah Drullard, "The Problem of Travestis is Entirely Colonial: Rehearsing Fugitivity." https://thefunambulist.net/magazine/building-trans-communities/the-problem-of-travestis-is-entirely-colonial-rehearsing-fugitivity

#blacktransfeminism

"I am not saying that these are different forms of violence that are related or, following Kimberlé Crenshaw’s intersectional view, as if they were a crossroads of intersecting roads, I am saying that cisgenderism is a racial order, just as capitalism is a colonial order, and the colonial order is always ableist, transphobic, racist, supremacist, zionist, capitalist violence… It is a problem. This perspective is necessary because, in my opinion, we will stop making gender transitions, as they imply not questioning the existence of gender in its colonial, white, and always human sense; therefore, it implies being trapped in questioning essentialism in order to move across rooms within the mansion of the female and male masters, without even attempting to burn down the house or grab a machete to try again to cut off the heads of the masters. Thus, understanding the coloniality of life in modernity that suffocates us requires us not only to build movements of marronage that fight against the multiplicity of faces of the CIStem, escaping the demands of “justice in equality, inclusion, and equity” imposed by white people, but rather recovering the memory erased by the colony, in order to understand our gender transitivities and disobediences as processes of decolonization and un-whitening, rather than gender reaffirmation. This is only possible if we stop being merely trans in the human sense and become anti-racist, decolonial maroons."

— Mikaelah Drullard, "The Problem of Travestis is Entirely Colonial: Rehearsing Fugitivity." https://thefunambulist.net/magazine/building-trans-communities/the-problem-of-travestis-is-entirely-colonial-rehearsing-fugitivity

#blacktransfeminism

"These processes of articulation of trans women, travestis, and marikas, such as the contramarcha, allow us to understand that the collaboration between transphobic white feminism and the antiderechos (anti-rights) far right not only affects trans people, but it is also directly related to the housing crisis, the privatization of rights for the benefit of an economic-political elite, and processes of precarization, which require the defense of “traditional values,” i.e., white, anti-immigrant, supremacist, antigénero (anti-gender) values. In defense of the private over the collective and public good, of the boss over the workers, and the reduction of institutional guarantees of rights, in order to sustain the world as we know it and as it has been sustained throughout coloniality. A non-partitioned understanding of the violence in the world, where we black women, indigenous women, marikas, travestis, and trans-dissidents are, allows us to understand, thinking of Chela Sandoval, the need to build an oppositional consciousness from a complex perspective, disputing other common senses of life in the collective and not the individual, seeing that the sexual and gender exceptionalism of the west and the white feminist imperialism of the west are colonial entities, and are part of the monster we avoid facing, which frightens us, assault us, and which we have in our homes."

— Mikaelah Drullard, "The Problem of Travestis is Entirely Colonial: Rehearsing Fugitivity." https://thefunambulist.net/magazine/building-trans-communities/the-problem-of-travestis-is-entirely-colonial-rehearsing-fugitivity

#blacktransfeminism

"It is urgent for me to reflect on how, from the racial boundaries imposed by coloniality and the edges of gender, displaced from the cis-hetero-racial matrix, travestis, marikas, trans, and non-hegemonic and non-normative subjectivities, without intending to speak for others, we are rehearsing the possibility of other lives, other futures, and possible spaces of emancipation, outside the neoliberal understandings of racial capitalism, which administers everything, including us."

— Mikaelah Drullard, "The Problem of Travestis is Entirely Colonial: Rehearsing Fugitivity." https://thefunambulist.net/magazine/building-trans-communities/the-problem-of-travestis-is-entirely-colonial-rehearsing-fugitivity

#blacktransfeminism

"There is no greater escape than that which does not insist on the ontology of domination and is constructed from negation rather than reaffirmation and inclusion in modern neoliberalism; in other words, in the colonial episteme of white men and women, who are always cis and heterosexual, because only that makes their-our normality possible. Humanity in women and men, therefore binary cis and white, is an almost unbreachable trap. It is a form of perpetual colonization, perhaps slavery was “abolished,” but gender in terms of women and men persists, and we, the colonized, “desire” it without meaning to. A political mistake."

— Mikaelah Drullard, "The Problem of Travestis is Entirely Colonial: Rehearsing Fugitivity." https://thefunambulist.net/magazine/building-trans-communities/the-problem-of-travestis-is-entirely-colonial-rehearsing-fugitivity

#blacktransfeminism

"At this starting point, I want to make something clear, I am not a victim, in fact, I am dangerous. I know how to fight in many ways with my tongue, with my pen, and with my machete, a machete that is an anti-racist inheritance from my black mother Juanita, who inherited it from my black grandmother Miladys Ramirez, who in turn inherited the machete from the ingenio. The machete has always been the work tool “given” by the female and male masters so that the non-humancis black body would work, but it has also been redefined as a political weapon of liberation and racial and gender marronage, racial because the flight from the cis-plantation is an ontological dispute of meaning, of ceasing to be a reified work instrument—racially and genderlessly turned into a thing—in modern-colonial capitalism."

— Mikaelah Drullard, "The Problem of Travestis is Entirely Colonial: Rehearsing Fugitivity." https://thefunambulist.net/magazine/building-trans-communities/the-problem-of-travestis-is-entirely-colonial-rehearsing-fugitivity

#blacktransfeminism