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.
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).
Pía Ceballos, a trans activist from Salta, 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.
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