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ILGA report on LGBTI rights: there is progress but opposition puts the gains at risk
Despite some progress for LGBTI+ people in the last year, strong opposition “is spoiling the progress made towards equal rights,” says the ILGA World report.
Mónica Linares: what it's like to be active for trans and HIV+ people in Bukele's time
Interview with Mónica Linares, a 44-year-old activist who has exceeded the average life expectancy for trans women in Latin America. She is a co-founder of ASPIDH Arcoíris Trans.
Rosana Paulino: Black women at the center of art to heal Brazil's traumas
The Afro-Brazilian artist is exhibiting an anthological show at Malba: the most important outside of Brazil, where she explores the collective trauma of slavery.
Elections in Mexico: What was said about diversity and rights in the three presidential debates
What proposals for diversity, migrants, and vulnerable groups appeared in the debates by the three candidates for the presidency of Mexico?
Rita Segato: “It is not power we seek, but the collapse of all power.”
Anthropologist and feminist activist Rita Segato spoke with Presentes about the anti-gender movement in Latin America and the continued power of feminist and diversity movements to erode patriarchy and capitalism.
March for historical reparations for trans and travesti people, cornered by a disproportionate police operation
The 2nd Plurinational March for Historical Reparation for Transvestite and Trans People advanced, hemmed in by a massive police operation. It managed to reach Congress, where the document was read and a music festival followed.
Dida Aguirre, Quechua poetry as resistance and Andean philosophy
Dida Aguirre, a Peruvian poet, began writing in Quechua as an act of resistance and to tell the world: it is possible to write poetry in indigenous languages, which speak of solidarity and a philosophy kept by old women around the hearth.
Matías Santana, from student activism to the Mapuche cause: “I am a political prisoner”
Matías Santana became known to the media through the Santiago Maldonado case, a crucial witness in a case that the courts recently ordered reopened. He was caricatured as "the Mapuche with binoculars," but his activism began several years earlier. He has been held in pretrial detention for three months at Unit 14 in Esquel. Mapuche communities are calling for his release.
Historical reparation for transvestites and trans people: Second march to Congress for the law for a dignified old age
The Second Plurinational March for Historical Reparation for transvestites and trans people will go from Congress to Plaza de Mayo. It has been stalled for a year. Meanwhile, layoffs continue against people hired under the quota law.
New soldiers of gay fascism
The current rise in rejection of non-muscular bodies within the gay world is reminiscent of the brotherhood among men encouraged by the Nazi ranks, whose hatred of the feminine had an obvious racial component.