The Law of Social Danger and Rehabilitation was repealed in 1979, yet criminalization continues in far more sophisticated ways—through biopolitical technologies that generate a false sense of security. We live “[…] in troubling times, confusing times, murky and problematic times.” (Haraway, 2020: 19). For this reason, and with the intention of staying with the trouble, as Donna Haraway suggests, we have adopted a scavenger methodology (Halberstam, 2008: 35), gathering information from various archives, documentation centers, and exhibitions. Through this process, we have uncovered different places where queer people existed throughout Spain’s history—lives and presences that were overlooked or scarcely recognized.

After researching each person or group, we write them a letter as a way to approach them from an affective space—distancing ourselves from the morbid or discriminatory tone that so often appears in institutional archives. We write these letters on edible paper, to later ingest it as a performative act. By doing so, we insert into our own bodies a counter-archive filled with the questions that emerge through the internal dialogue of our search.