Liz Paola Cortaza: living memory of trans activism in Paraguay
Liz Paola is an LGBTI+ rights activist, a trans artist, and a survivor of the Stroessner dictatorship. She advocates for trans rights alongside her colleagues at Casa Diversa.
Liz Paola is an LGBTI+ rights activist, a trans artist, and a survivor of the Stroessner dictatorship. She advocates for trans rights alongside her colleagues at Casa Diversa.
Although the plaintiffs had requested life imprisonment for the prefects, the five were sentenced with light sentences for the murder by shooting Rafael Nahuel, a young Mapuche man, in the back in 2017.
In his new show, Alejandro Córdova adopts the name “La Taylor.” He shares stories of love and sex. His performance is influenced by his experience in Argentina; while studying dramaturgy, he immersed himself in the ballroom community.
Last week saw reports of insults and threats against LGBT people. On Wednesday, a non-binary teacher was assaulted on a bus. There is growing concern about the escalating violence.
Although the murders of trans women in Puebla exhibit characteristics of femicide, the authorities do not investigate them as such. Nor do they investigate them as hate crimes, thus rendering these crimes invisible and leaving them unpunished in the state.
Hundreds of Paraguayan women marched on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.
Thousands of people will mobilize in Latin America for the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.
Santa Fe has approved the Post-Dictatorship Reparation Law for Trans and Transvestite People. A pension will be granted to those who suffered detentions between 1983 and June 10, 2012. A total of 147 people will benefit throughout the province.
The people have come down from the mountains to reclaim what belongs to them and has been stolen from them.
Three stories that tell how Mayan families live with and accept the sexual identity of their children.