La traducción y lo lúdico en el cambio social


 Gender-inclusive language, both binary and non-binary, advocates for wider visibility of non-dominant genders.
 However, in the Spanish context, this language, especially the binary variant, has been received with much opposition led by the
 institution establishing linguistic norms. This paper addresses the possibility of using gender-inclusive language as a political
 practice in translation and explores how entertainment genres, particularly comics, and information on the social goals of
 heterodox linguistic practices may be conducive to relaxing the adherence to dominant doxas. By priming responses based on two
 gender-inclusive (one binary and one non-binary) translations of the comic Morgane by Kansara and Fert,
 differences between four focus groups were analyzed. Two of them received a briefing session detailing the social agenda of
 gender-inclusive language, and two were offered no such sessions before reading and discussing the translations. Results showed
 how the briefing sessions relaxed adherence to the dominant doxa even though the social purpose of gender-inclusive language was
 widely questioned. Further, results evinced that binary translation was more strongly opposed than the non-binary variant. It is
 argued that translation can be used as a tool for political and social change and become instrumental in advocating for equal
 opportunities for all genders.