📚✨ From April 10 to 12, the third Queer Literature Meeting (E.L. Queer) once again brings together essential voices from the queer and transfeminist literary scene. It does so with an intersectional, critical and creative perspective, where activism is written, recited, performed… and also heard.
More than 30 participants make up this edition, which focuses not only on thought tables, but also on poetic recitals, live podcasts, storytelling and performances. In a context of reactionary threats and hate speech, literature here becomes a refuge, but also a trench to imagine futures where we all fit.
Three days, many questions: queer as thought and experience
How do we resist in digital? What does it mean to have the right to the city when we are expelled from it? Can we imagine queer utopias in a conservative world?These are some of the questions that cross the debate tables:
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Digital survival (Thursday 10): with Silvia Agüero, Cristina Fallarás and Marta G. Franco, moderated by Margot Rot, the internet is explored as a political and resistance space against machismo, fascism and LGTBIQ+phobia.
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The right to the city (Thursday 10): Sarah Babiker, Christo Casas and Ana Geranios, together with Silvia Nanclares, reflect on gentrification, expulsion and neighborhood networks as forms of struggle.
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Imperfect Utopias (Friday the 11th): Ira Hybris, Alicia Valdés and Lara Alonso Corona talk with Layla Martínez about how to build hope in dark times.
Tribute to Roberta Marrero: poetry as a legacy
One of the most emotional moments of the meeting will be the recital “So that the birds drink”, in memory of the writer, poet and artist Roberta Marrero (1972-2024). His figure, key to trans culture in Spain, will be celebrated by voices such as Ava Cívico, Rodrigo García Marina, Ángelo Nestore and many more, under the curatorship of Laura Casielles.
Living literature: podcast, stories and drag shows
The meeting is also open to other languages and formats:
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Sangre Fuchsia records for the first time live an episode about “queer, folkloric and historical memories”, with guests such as Eugenia Tenenbaum, Mikel Herrán and Lidia García. It will be on Saturday the 12th, at noon.
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That same day, a Drag Story Hour is held with Margarita Kalifata, Hunky Mattel and other stars of drag art, who will read stories for children (and adults) in an inclusive and festive space.
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As a closing, the One Woman Show by Gad Yola, a Peruvian drag that mixes humor, social criticism, music and autobiography, promises to draw applause. From Lima to Madrid, its story connects racism, migration and pop culture with an unmistakable style.
Can you make a living from writing?
One of the most pointed questions will arrive on the Saturday afternoon table, under the title “Literary Survival”. With authors such as Bibiana Collado, Ana Flecha Marco, Alana S. Portero and Sara Torres, moderated by Sabina Urraca, the challenges of making a living from writing in a sector that flourishes… but does not always distribute fairly will be addressed. Who has access to that privilege? What roles do we make invisible when we talk about “the literary world”?
A celebration… for everyone?
Although E.L. Queer III is presented as a plural space, there are voices that could ask: to what extent do these meetings manage to connect with the most precarious realities of the LGTBIQ+ community? What role does accessibility, territorial diversity or the representation of less visible identities play? The celebration of queer art must always be accompanied by a critical gaze that does not forget those who are still on the margins of the margins.
Accessible event in Spanish Sign Language (LSE).
