Maricas malas is a brilliant text in favor of freedom and dissent. We will discover how the LGTBIQ+ struggle is a claim that concerns us all, a true social and class fight that paves the way towards a life free of limitations.
«But, if you can already marry, what more do you want?» What can be desired beyond forming a productive family, bringing new workers into the world, obtaining some tax relief, and ensuring that, upon death, it will be the blood of our blood who inherits the little we have accumulated with the sweat of our brow? Is there anything better, a more hopeful promise, than the longed-for, claimed, and finally conquered normality?
The chimera of normality, understood as a specific way of consumption, has become an obstacle for social and class struggles. The desire to assimilate to that "normal," to go unnoticed, has silenced in the debate the dissidences and ways of life distant from the capitalist productive and reproductive system.
In contrast, we should be able to claim more than ever other ways of life that invite all society to transform itself from the margins, to become effeminate, to revolutionize affections, care, and also pleasures. An alternative path, a collective horizon that does not discard realities discordant with a society whose epicenter is the nuclear and cishetero family.
Cover illustrated by Wojciech Woś
Christo Casas, journalist and anthropologist, presents in Maricas malas a text halfway between essay and personal story in which we will discover that queer struggles are a claim that concerns us all, a true social and class contest to build a collective future from dissent. A clear-sighted essay that constitutes a true invitation to all society to dive into their own dissident practices and take pride in them.
