“There’re the Faggots”: Spatial Affects and Injurious Discursive Effects

Abstract

This article is a reflection on the relationship between the production and reception of insults in the narrations of homosexual subjects in the city of Puebla, and how they affect their experience of social space. If we first acknowledge that insults discursively formulate the interpellated social subjects and their spaces, we can then consider those utterances as performative, since they affect naming and self-recognition. Insults are a recurrent feature of the experiences of segregation and discrimination of homosexual subjects. Thus, this article proposes to consider the experiences of homosexual subjects with insults as a discussion route to understand how the proliferation of injurious discourse operate in an empirical field.