Homage 1 March 2024 

Marco Antonio Chivalán-Carrillo

It is with profound sadness that the Decolonizing Sexualities Network mourns the passing of an active member of the community, Marco Antonio Chivalán-Carrillo, on 27th February 2024.

An esteemed K’che’ Maya marica feminist thinker in History and Philosophy and social researcher in the Social Imaginaries Research Team in Asociación para el Avance de las Ciencias Sociales en Guatemala (AVANCSO) and co-author of the ground-breaking Sexo y Raza: Analíticas de la Blancura, el Deseo y la Sexualidad en Guatemala (AVANCSO, 2015), Marco collaborated on several projects with the DSN fostering a sense of community with its members.

Marco’s loss will be felt deeply for all the members of the DSN community who have deep admiration for his labour.

A memorial event will be organised in the coming weeks.

Rest in love, dear Marco

Abrazos

Marco co-authored the chapter “Decolonial Queer Knowledges: Aesthesis, Memory and Practice” with the DSN Collective in Tate, Shirley Anne., Gutiérrez Rodríguez, Enacarnacion (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Race and Gender. Palgrave Macmillan (2021). It is available at the following link, https://www.academia.edu/75053273/Decolonial_Queer_Knowledges_Aesthesis_Memory_and_Practice