The notions of 'transgender' and 'sexual diversity' have become dominant symbolic resources at a global level as they encompass a diversity of dissident sex-gender experiences. These notions have been important as they include and synthesize a multiplicity of demands, social movements and cultural transformations around the politics of gender identities in the contemporary world. However, these notions have also come to overshadow and dissolve situated symbolic and cultural ecologies with which sex-gender dissidence has been conceived in marginal or peripheral contexts. This paper explores social discourses and practices around sex-gender dissidence that emerge from the historical and cultural conditions of a peripheral community in Mexico called Colima. These are languages and practices that are culturally situated and prior to the establishment of modern mainstream discourses on 'sexual diversity' coming mainly from European and English-speaking countries. The cultural figure of 'las vestidas' (the dressed ones) is rescued as a way of accounting from a memory of languages and practices of gender resistance, survival and transgression. This memory can contribute to generating post- and decolonial approaches that recognize the geopolitical and historical particularities of gender identities. It is argued on the importance of generating a situated approach that acknowledges the plurality of epistemic conditions that produce memory devices capable of weaving futures in directions different from the mainstream and more dominant (often colonial) discourses of sexual diversity.
