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.
Thirty-one months after the quota was approved, the Buenos Aires provincial government still hasn't signed the implementing decree to put it into effect. "Every day that passes without the law being enforced is another night that our female colleagues take to the streets, exposed to violence," said Sasha Sacayán, brother of Diana Sacayán and an activist.
The commercial premiered two weeks ago and is part of a campaign by the company Zona Jobs. It stars Mariana Genesio Peña, an actress from Córdoba, and was nominated for the Lola Mora Awards. It has received both praise and criticism.
Florencia B. (27 years old) and Irupé B. (23 years old) are girlfriends. On Friday the 20th, they were assaulted by the owner of a supermarket in Morón, in Greater Buenos Aires, while shopping. “He insulted us in front of everyone and nobody did anything,” one of the women said. The couple filed a complaint with the Morón Prosecutor's Office No. 2 and with the National Institute Against Discrimination, Racism and Xenophobia (INADI).
Salta trans activist Pía Ceballos wrote an open letter from one trans generation to another.
Various studies conducted in Argentina – by both civil society and the national government – confirm that 98% of transvestite and transgender people do not have formal employment and that at least 90% are or have been involved in prostitution, an imposed destiny that perpetuates inequality, repression, and…
Since I made my HIV status public, many people tell me about family members or acquaintances who died with HIV or even AIDS in the closet. These are stories silenced within families, shared in hushed tones by grandmothers or aunts—realities that will also die with the few who know about them.
Fernando Adrián Albornoz, 34, is an LGBTI activist. On Monday, as he arrived home in a building in the Barrio Norte neighborhood of Buenos Aires, he was attacked by a neighbor: he pushed him against the elevator mirror and said, “I don’t want to see any faggots or queers in my building. If I see you here again, I’ll kill you.”
Joe Lemonge is a trans man from the city of Santa Elena, Entre Ríos. In October 2016, he was attacked for the fourth time by a group of men who were harassing him. He defended himself and is now on trial for attempted murder.
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