Multidisciplinary project that begins with the word pájara (bird)—used in the Dominican Republic to police and degrade queer bodies.

Drawing on the concept of language as a disciplinary tool, this work examines how a slur becomes a regime of truth: spoken to mark, to control, to render certain bodies intelligible only through deviation. Pájara is not just a word—it is a mechanism of surveillance, a violent categorization masked as vernacular.

Inspired by José Esteban Muñoz’s vision of queer futurity and Maja Horn’s reading of queer Caribbean absence, this work insists on presence.