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Textile practices and the materiality of fiber function as decolonial technologies for embodied knowledge transmission, which can be understood through the theoretical framework of 'transtextility' to challenge the coloniality of gender. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.METHODOLOGICAL. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.NEUTRAL.

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This work explores how textiles can serve as a decolonial tool for embodying and transmitting knowledge, particularly around gender.

April 17, 2026Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture

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This work explores how textiles can serve as a decolonial tool for embodying and transmitting knowledge, particularly around gender.
Utilized countervisual methodologies such as speculation, citationality, and diffraction.
Analyzed the artist’s interventions in colonial visual archives.
Examined critiques of the coloniality of the gendered decorative and embodiment of knowledge.
Identified a connection between textile practices and embodied epistemologies.
Conceptualized transtextility as linking textile theory and practice.
Highlighted the fluid and improvisatory nature of knowledge transmission through textiles.

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Case study analyzes the political potential of textiles in embodied knowledge transmission, highlighting gender nonconformity.

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Mayra Bottaro (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69e1cefb5cdc762e9d857dd2 https://doi.org/10.1525/lavc.2026.8.2.56

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