Abstract:This article is a travesti assemblage. It is formed from three different but interconnected sections. The first is a life story of a young working-class Peruvian travesti, Sandra. My reading of this particular travesti narrative is an attempt to mark a queer existence or presence in and against worlds, institutions, and collectives that historically have attempted to erase such an existence. The second is an exploration of the encounter of an ethnographer and an informant. This second section attempts to undo and displace, through dialogue with dreams and nightmares, some of the certainties that the ethnographic encounter has come to imply. The third section introduces the queer art of lying, another form of aesthetic and political reflexivity, and rethinks all I have presented thus far by exploring its limits. The article concludes with a critical plea for engaging with the queer art of lying, in order to imagine new forms of travesti survival, and less cruel ways of travesti death.

中文翻译：

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Travesti 在人种志机器中梦想外面

摘要：这篇文章是一个travesti组合。它由三个不同但相互连接的部分组成。第一个是年轻的秘鲁工人阶级 travesti Sandra 的生活故事。我对这个特别的 travesti 叙述的阅读是试图在历史上试图抹去这种存在的世界、机构和集体中标记一种奇怪的存在或存在。第二个是对民族志学家和线人相遇的探索。第二部分试图通过与梦境和噩梦的对话来消除和取代民族志遭遇所暗示的某些确定性。第三部分介绍说谎的另一种形式的说谎艺术，并通过探索其局限性重新思考我迄今为止所呈现的所有内容。