Description
Feminist scholars and social-legal practitioners have shown how women are gendered subjects of Transitional Justice (TJ) due to intersecting violence and harm experienced. Hence, they advocated for gender-just and transformative forms of reparations that aim to subvert pre-existing structural inequalities and discriminations causing gendered forms of violence. Similarly, victims and survivors of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) population become queer and intersectional subjects of TJ and therefore hold a right to differentiated reparations. However, there exists scarce literature that defines what gender-just redress looks like or how transformative gender justice is implemented in practice. The ongoing Colombian domestic reparation process presents a pilot case for studying the recognition of gendered, queer and intersectional subjects as equal rights holders and the implementation of such gender-just, differentiated or ‘queer’ reparations. This comparative case study aims to identify new forms of gender justice for intersectional subjects of TJ. Based on expert interviews conducted with social activists of LGBT victims’ groups and NGOs in Bogotá, Medellín, and Barranquilla, the article seeks to analyze the impact of transformative reparations and critically discusses its long temporalities and its possibilities to transform deadly pasts and to build better and livable futures in the light of limited available financial resources.
