By María Eugenia Ludueña and Ana Fornaro Photos: Ariel Gutraich Starting at 8 a.m., activists and members of the public alike began arriving at the corner of Lavalle and Talcahuano streets. The Justice for Diana Commission had called for people to support the public trial by showing their presence and voices. And there they were…
The trial for the transphobic murder of Amancay Diana Sacayán begins on March 12. It will be the first time the courts have referred to it as a "hate crime based on gender identity."
Sol's charred body was found in a garbage dump in Recreo Sur on Wednesday. She had been dead for two days. The Santa Fe justice system denies her self-identified gender and officially refers to her by the initials of her male name. This is the second transphobic murder in the province in just over a month: on February 8, Cuqui Bonetto was murdered in Rincón.
Lesbian, bisexual, and trans women were highly visible at the #8M march through downtown Asunción. They were among the more than 6,000 women who demanded equal pay and recognition of domestic work and caregiving, and who protested against harassment and workplace violence, among other demands.
From Plaza de Mayo towards Congress, the march is tight, slow, and powerful. In this feminist strike that mobilized half a million people in Buenos Aires alone, dissident women, lesbians, trans people, and transvestites made their voices heard and felt.
By Airam Fernández, from Santiago, Chile. The Chilean Senate passed the Gender Identity Bill this week in a lightning session, hours after Michelle Bachelet's government designated the initiative as "highly urgent." It was in its third legislative stage and in its fifth year in Congress. Nearly…
The feminist struggle is intrinsically linked to the LGBTI struggle, as transphobia and homophobia are forms of gender-based violence. Alexandra Hernández, an activist for Equal Marriage (Peru), says:
In #Episode15 of the saga mentioned by Lucas Fauno Gutiérrez (script) and Jon Amarillo (art), three women living with HIV explain why for #8M.
By the Lohana Berkins Collective, we, transvestites/trans women/Indigenous women/Indian women/Muxes/Weyes/Black women/Afro-descendants, from Latin America and the Caribbean, our Abya Yala, declare today, #8M: Our average life expectancy is 32 years, and the reasons for all our deaths are preventable. We are far from…
For a feminism that includes everyone: lesbians, trans women, and trans people! No kiss is born straight. Stop the persecution of lesbians who fight for their rights. For our older lesbians. Dismissal of charges against Mariana Gómez. Justice for Diana Sacayán. These were some of the slogans of Lesbian Visibility Day, summarized in the document (see below) released on the 7th…
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