| Summary: | This article presents the main principles of queer linguistics (QL) and examines their potential in the study of how the Latin American Spanish-language media industry portrays sexual and gender minorities. In particular, the authors explore these potentialities by making a connection between ql and critical disability studies, presenting a case study of the Colombian media’s representation of a disabled transgender woman. The analysis shows that the media individualizes trans-disabled experiences and hides the causes and agents that undermine, discriminate, and jeopardize these subjectivities. Therefore, this QL-based intersectional, critical and de-colonial approach contributes to research into the discursive construction of cisheteronormativity and its intersectionalities, especially those connected to corporality and disability.
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