Dusan Fung is an actor, playwright, theater director, and professor. At the age of 26, along with four friends, he founded the independent, multidisciplinary arts company Imaginario Colectivo. From its inception, this company has focused on uncomfortable and urgent issues: social inequality and diversity.
Sometimes HIV is anything but a virus. Sometimes HIV is a situation that sparks dialogue, questions, and perspectives. And as always, those of us living with the virus are the last link in this chain of clichés, most of them poorly thought out.
In a historic day for the women's, lesbian, bisexual, transvestite, and transgender movement, after a session that lasted more than 23 hours, the Argentine Chamber of Deputies gave preliminary approval to the bill to legalize abortion. It passed with 129 votes in favor and 125 against.
“My name is Tom. I’m a trans guy. I had an abortion several years ago. It was at an illegal clinic in Rosario.” This is how the spot for the series “We Are Stories. Our lives, our health, our decisions matter” begins. It was produced by Mujeres Audiovisuales (Women in Audiovisual Media), Trabajadoras Independientes del Campo Audiovisual (Independent Workers in the Audiovisual Field), and Actrices Argentinas (Argentine Actresses) to support the bill of the National Campaign for the Right to Legal, Safe, and Free Abortion and to demand legal abortion for pregnant people.
In this column, we discuss the defense attorney's closing argument in the trial for the transphobic murder of Diana Sacayán. We also cover the festival organized on Saturday, June 9th, to demand the acquittal of Higui de Jesús, one year after her release.
We, transvestites and trans people, know very well what it means to decide about our own bodies. We did so for many years in secret, and that cost us (and still costs us) nothing less than our lives. That's why trans women are fighting for legal abortion, and we are in the streets, and we will be at the vigil in front of Congress for the vote in the Chamber of Deputies on June 13th. And that's why we also hope to see everyone on June 28th at 6 PM in Plaza de Maya for the National March against transvesticide and transfemicide.
Report by Gabriela Zampedri: Unlike in 2017, when Eva Analía "Higui" de Jesús spent her birthday, June 7, in the Magdalena prison—she was released days later, on June 13—this time she celebrated her 44th birthday with an open-air festival, accompanied by her mother, family, friends, and activists.
The 11th and penultimate hearing of the trial for the transvesticide of human rights defender Diana Sacayán began two hours later than planned, lasted four hours, and focused on the defense argument of the accused Gabriel David Marino.
The play "If You Love Me, Love Me Trans" speaks of desires, unfulfilled dreams, and hard-won victories. It is performed by the 7 Colores Diversidad Theater Company, directed by the trans playwright Daniela Ruiz.
The trans community of Florencio Varela experienced a historic day. The City Council unanimously approved a trans employment quota, establishing that 1% of positions within the municipality and the private sector must be filled by transgender people. Like the provincial law, the ordinance is named after the murdered trans activist, Diana Amancay Sacayán.
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