ISS: More than documenting LGBTQ+ narratives: A human rights activist’s perspective from Colombia’s truth commission

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The article explores how LGBTQ+ organizations engage with transitional justice not only to achieve recognition, but to interrogate and reshape its epistemic foundations. 

Focusing on the Colombian organization Caribe Afirmativo and its contributions to the country’s Truth Commission, it examines how memory work becomes a site of negotiation, contestation and political intervention.

García Gómez analyses how Caribe Afirmativo was able to maintain its autonomy whilst engaging with state institutions, could produce knowledge from grassroots and dissident perspectives and advance claims for collective reparations amid inequality.

Published open access, the article can be read online - 'More than documenting LGBTQ+ narratives: A human rights activist’s perspective from Colombia’s truth commission'
Opens externaThe International Journal of Human Rights. May 2025.

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