Hija de Perra

Even though maybe Isn’t the most important persons in the Chilean history, in my opinion “Hija de Perra” is a great contribution for the debate about transvestite in Chile.

“Hija de perra” is a quick-change artist in Chile from 2000. She make “filthy” performance (in her own words), she worked in the collective “Cabaret Chiquitibum”, was singer in “Electro Mugre”, was columnist in the website “portalepicentro” and was principal actor in some short film. But the most important characteristic about Hija de perra is that she has a political speech about this topic.

She did many things in the last time. For a while she make talk about gender theory in different Chileans university. In addition she is instructor of venereal disease, so in this form she entrust valuable information for the people. She is a social activist all the time.

In my opinion Hija de Perra is an important contribution for our society because is one of the persons that contribute to debate in our country about the transvestite theme, and not only about transvestite theme, she promote gender topic and she try to demonstrate that our sexuality is important topic, our body is a new world and don´t matter how you show to the world.

Recently she came to my faculty. I went to see her presentation, but I couldn’t ask to her because she was only the moderator. But maybe another time want to know about her experience in the transvestite work.

Hija de perra make some short films, like “Empanada de pino” and “Perdida Hija de Perra”. In the last case, she wins an award for the best performance in the “Diva Film Fest.