Are Liberation Theologies Ready to Liberate Maricas? Reflections on the Challenges of Liberation Theologies Today

When speaking of liberation, a fundamental question inevitably arises: Liberation for whom? This enquiry becomes more complex when the sex-gender perspective is added. This paper presents critical points within Latin American Liberation Theologies (LLT) that must be addressed to move towards a liberation of sex-gender dissidences (Maricas). The reflection, far from being speculative, seeks to resituate the question of contextuality as one of the most important theoretical-practical challenges in the elaboration of Queer Theologies from/in/by Abya Yala. Therefore, it will reflexively examine the urgent need to continue depatriarchalizing and “indecenting” the methodologies employed in LLT. To this end, it will draw on the contributions of Latin American indecent theologies, rarely considered by contemporary “liberation” proponents. Research through various reference works, past and present, leads to the following question: Are LLT Ready to Liberate Maricas?