This article focuses on the description of an ongoing ethnographic process. It explores the researcher’s first encounter with a new environment and the initial reflections that emerge from a queer and decolonial perspective. Two portraits, of a trans woman and of a group of chola women ascending the summit of Huayna Potosí, are encountered within the central square of Santa Cruz de la Sierra. These images, situated in a space historically shaped by colonial and patriarchal power, become narrative events that evoke questions about visibility, resistance, and the occupation of public space by marginalized bodies.
