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, since transphobia and homophobia are forms of gender-based violence. This is the opinion of Alexandra Hernández, an activist with the Equal Marriage movement in Peru
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…
On Lesbian Visibility Day and with an anti-patriarchal football match - in which Nora Cortiñas, from Mothers of Plaza de Mayo Founding Line, participated - the Campaign for #AbsolutionForHigui was launched in front of the National Congress.
Go Girls! Convened and curated by the Go Girls! Comics Festival, the Lesbian Identities exhibition serves as a prelude to this specialized comics event, which will hold its second edition three days later, on Saturday, March 10. This same renewed interest in comics, reflected in the existence of…
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