Photos: Ariel Gutraich. On International Workers' Day, in front of Congress in Buenos Aires, a group of more than ten social organizations and LGBTQ+ activists presented a coalition to promote a national trans employment quota law. According to official figures available at the national level (dating from…
Casandra Sandoval is a feminist journalist, trans activist, and national secretary of the CFTTA (Argentine Trans and Travesti Federal Assembly). Since 2002, she has worked on the team of the Undersecretary of Family Farming at the Ministry of Agroindustry. A week ago, she received her dismissal notice after working for almost 16 years on a precarious contract. She (the only trans person in that Ministry), along with 16 colleagues from Salta, is fighting for immediate reinstatement and permanent positions.
This initiative, a collaboration between the LGBTIQ+ collective Devenir Diverse and the student group Estudiantes al Frente, has created eleven jobs for transgender university students at the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities of the National University of Córdoba. The cafeteria has historically been excluded from higher education.
Putting an end to the violence against our identities and what constitutes them is the challenge we want to establish within the feminist movement, but no longer as a form of accompaniment but by adopting our struggle as our own, pronouncing the issue on the social agenda.
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