Abstract

Linked to the emergence of the student movement in 2006, numerous groups compo-sed of young people, not necessarily students, were created in Chile. They question the gender order, and point to a wide range of political, social and cultural demands, without seeing the state as the privileged way to demand space for their demands. In some cases, demanding their right to exist as individuals with a dierent identity to those accepted by the gender order, or perform practices in defence of their rights that are themselves statements about those rights. These groups are generationally and culturally distinct from organizations expressing gender demands and having a history linked to the anti-dictatorship struggle (feminists, women) or HIV (sexual diversity). We intend to understand these new forms of social action, as they challenge traditional paradigms focused on analyzing antagonisms dened by the relations of production classes, and traditional forms of political articulation (linked to parties, clientelistic traits). We will discuss their appearance as a social movement, the aspects that mark their collective identities, which re-present a cultural and political challenge to the forms of interaction within the same movement and the gender order in general.