By Ana Fornaro and María Eugenia Ludueña. Diana Sacayán was brutally murdered in her own home, while defenseless from the severe beating she had received. The trans activist and human rights defender was bound, gagged, attacked in numerous ways, and fatally stabbed. This is what she told…
I never heard anyone shout “hetero” as an insult. Now, “faggot” is commonplace. All of us who distanced ourselves from the privileges of heterosexuality learned to transform insults into pride. Those of us who pulse with a rhythm that clashes with the choreography of heteronormativity were disqualified from that board of the “Game of Normal Life” and had to learn to survive by other rules. So today, when the National Secretariat of Human Rights tweets that “heterosexuality is part of sexual diversity,” the scars left on me by not being that heterosexual, and, according to the government, diverse sexuality, still burn.
Luciana Sánchez, lawyer for the family lawsuit headed by Sasha Sacayán, explains why the trial for the transvesticide of Diana is historic.
I was born in Rosario and I'm an older trans woman. When I was 16, I was kicked out of my house and started working as a prostitute because it was the only way out I had. At that time, we were just called transvestites; the word "trans" didn't exist. I had to flee to Buenos Aires because during a police raid, I broke a police chief's nose with my purse. I was just a kid. I arrived at my aunt's house and started working as a prostitute in secret. I struggled a lot, and I also had that rebellious streak of youth: the more you're told not to do something, the more you do it.
Cordoba-born filmmaker Daniel Tortosa explains why his documentary "Los Maricones"—which can be viewed in full here—addresses the repression of gays and trans people during the last dictatorship, but it doesn't end there. Released in 2016, the testimonies revive marginalized voices and warn of the return of punitivism and police harassment of dissident sexual identities.
Eleven trans women from Rosario and eight from the city of Santa Fe have begun the process of accessing a pension granted to victims of the dictatorship, under Provincial Law 13.298. The law establishes the payment of a monthly pension to people who prove they were "deprived of their liberty for political, union or student reasons" between March 24, 1976 and December 10, 1983.
This week, national news portals, newspapers and television programs gave extensive coverage to what they described as a “gender scam”, “abuse” or “deception” and a “legal loophole” in the case of Sergia Lazarovich, a woman from Tucumán who resides in Salta, an AFIP employee, who changed her registered status, according to her coworkers, “to receive her pension earlier”.
By Lucas Gutiérrez Photo: Lau Castro Gael Policano Rossi is a writer, playwright, actor, astrologer, and always more. Originally from southern Argentina, this self-taught astrologer began talking about the zodiac and planets on Radio Nacional Rock's program 'Villa Cariño'. It was there that “AstroMostra” was born, when a listener combined the 'mostra' (a play on words combining "mostra," meaning "most" or "most" in Gael's name) on air…
By Ceci Estalles* “I want people who don’t know about art to understand what I do,” says the Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei, and I can’t help but connect those words with what we experienced last Monday at the Hotel Gondolin. The Hotel Gondolin is a hotel reclaimed by trans women, self-managed…
Bicho and I, the saga mentioned by Lucas Fauno Gutiérrez (script) and Jon Amarillo (art), tells in episode #17: "Yes, I live with a strain of HIV."
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