quimerical asked:

hello my mutual!!! in my moment of greatest need i supplicate to either you or your followers whether you have read anything responding to the poststructuralists’ points on language, either through a more contemporary trans/otherwise genderweird lens or a postcolonial one. this is after reading cixous’ three steps on the ladder of writing+derrida’s signature, event, context and thinking there’s gotta be more than this.

hi :)

we want to call-in back-up (from anyone seeing this). i’m not the best person to ask and don’t feel equipped to really answer.

i can immediately think of at least ten friends/acquaintances (if i may be so bold) here on this site (hope you know who you are!) who would have much better advice (especially from trans/“queer” angle).

there are some articles/chapters that come to mind that might help?

what worries me is plenty of these publishing dates are like 2010-2018, and i feel both decolonial/trans “theorizing” would have been more digested/re-worked/reconsidered more recently.

• Leticia Sabsay, “Bodies as Territories: Revisiting the Coloniality of Gender” (2025) (she addresses Foucault and Preciado while playing with Maria Lugones’s work, while prioritizing like Indigenous/trans/anticolonial stuff from Latin American perspective)
• Fernanda Belizario, “For a Post-Colonial Queer Theory: Coloniality of Gender and Heteronormativity Occupying the Borders of Translation” (2015)
• Paul Preciado, Countersexual Manifesto (2018) (i’ve not read this, but apparently he deals with Derrida, Foucault, fucking Butler, and “queer theory” not going far enough)
• Asa Zhang, “Towards a Postcolonial Feminist Philosophy of Translation” (2025) (involves Derrida/Benjamin)

have you read Mignolo? i think he discussed Derrida/deconstruction directly in “The Geopolitics of Knowledge and Colonial Difference” (2002), but also plays elsewhere with decolonial theory, semiotics, writing/language, knowledge production, Foucault-esque archaeology of discourse, “modernity”:

• “Delinking: The Rhetoric of Modernity, the Logic of Coloniality, and the Grammar of De-Coloniality” (2007)
• “On Pluritopic Hermeneutics, Trans-modern Thinking and Decolonial Philosophy” (2009)
• “The Geopolitics of Sensibility and Knowledge: On (De)Coloniality, Border Thinking, and Epistemic Disobedience” (2013)
• “Decoloniality and Phenomenology: The Geopolitics of Knowing and Epistemic/ Ontological Colonial Differences” (2018)
• “Reflections on Translation across Colonial Epistemic Differences: Languages, Media and Visual Imaginary” (2025)

you’re familiar with Maria Lugones? colleague/associate of Mignolo. some of her stuff may be adjacent.

Gayle Salomon is into phenomneology, trans theory (obviously) and disability studies. i’ve not read this, but seen it cited. and would love if anyone else here would vouch for or, instead, be critical of her? not sure myself if she holds up?

• Assuming a Body: Transgender and Rhetorics of Materiality (2010)

and i’ve seen this cited, but haven’t read. i think it’s open-source and online?

• Edited by Christian Hite, Derrida and Queer Theory (2017)

but again: i’m definitely not equipped to answer, so i hope others here can provide better recommendations