Hija de Perra

Born

1980-01-07

Died

2014-08-25

Birthplace

Santiago de Chile, Chile

Biography

Hija de Perra (which translates to Daughter of a Bitch) was a radical Chilean performer, writer, and activist known for her confrontational, provocative, and deeply political work that challenged normative ideas about gender, sexuality, the body, and beauty. Active primarily in the 2000s until her death in 2014, she became an iconic figure in Latin America's underground art and queer scenes. She deliberately refused to reveal her legal name, viewing it as part of a patriarchal and heteronormative identity system she sought to dismantle. Her persona and stage name were a statement against the domestication of bodies and identities by societal norms. Hija de Perra died in 2014 from cancer, but her influence endures in queer, feminist, and dissident art and activism throughout Latin America. She remains a symbol of radical resistance — not only for what she said, but for how she embodied her politics. Her legacy is celebrated by those who continue to resist the binary, the normative, and the sanitized.