The role of the media is crucial in combating violence. Following the transfemicide of Sara Millerey, we share some lessons learned and suggestions regarding journalistic coverage, narratives, language use, and photography.
Sara Millerey González Borja, a Colombian woman, had her arms and legs broken, was thrown into the river, and while she cried for help, people just watched and filmed. LGBT organizations had been warning about the increase in violence and transphobia in Colombia. The role of the media and the message on social media.
Violeta Alegre, a trans researcher and artist, questions the use of the term "phobia" when talking about hatred against subjects and identities.
In the Balvanera neighborhood of Buenos Aires, a lesbian couple was physically assaulted by two neighbors. The incident has been reported to the authorities, but they are forced to continue seeing their attackers.
In October 2020, the National Court of Cassation dismissed the hate crime aggravating circumstance in the transfemicide of Diana Sacayán. The Prosecutor's Office asked the Supreme Court to uphold this aggravating circumstance; the Court chose not to rule on the matter.
Another Community is a work by performer, choreographer, and director Iván Haidar. It links dance with dissidence to challenge ideas of time and language through non-binary bodily expressions.
A podcast tells the stories of Mapuche women from the Quintriqueo community in Argentine Patagonia.
From homelessness and abandonment to community life. Casa Andrea opened at the end of 2024 and is home to 8 cis and trans people.
LGBT organizations work to document and systematize the suicide deaths of LGBT people.
Forty-nine years after the military coup, the streets and squares of Argentina overflowed with people in a demonstration that articulated the legacy of the Mothers and Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo in one of the most powerful responses against repression, fascism, and the constant attacks on human rights by the government of Javier Milei.
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