Unraveling Time: Queer Future and Trans Entanglement in Veneno
- Autores: Dean Allbritton
- Localización: The Routledge Hispanic studies companion to twentieth and twenty-first century Spain: ideas, practices, imaginings / coord. por Eduardo Ledesma, Luisa Elena Delgado, 2025, ISBN 978-1-032-96468-3, págs. 393-402
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
Spanish cultural icon and media figure Cristina “La Veneno” Ortiz Rodríguez was a polemic figure, rising to television stardom in the mid-1990s in late-night talk shows in Spain with a burst of vibrant energy, quick wit, and saucy storytelling. Her portrayal in the eponymous television series Veneno, created by Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi in 2020, showcases these characteristics while exploring how her life and legacy have afforded representational space for the LGBTQ community – particularly trans women – in Spanish media today. Showcasing the evolution and transformation of La Veneno, the series makes a case for reading trans identities through a fantasy of the future yet to come, and it highlights the possibilities of storytelling oneself into the life one has long dreamt of. This chapter tugs at those threads, considering how minority affinities, painful transformations, and relational entanglements are represented in Veneno and how these become interlocking narratives and imperatives for a better, more inclusive future. In this manner, transgender identities are fleshed out instead of flattened, and the event of transitioning is not read as a simple or straightforward linear narrative towards a state of perfection. Turning to José E. Muñoz’s writing on queer futurity and utopias and to Elizabeth Duval’s critique of universal trans identity and experience, this chapter argues that Veneno both surrenders to common narratives of transformation and transitioning and reimagines them, at once reflecting and reshaping the halting, stuttered treatment of trans communities today.
