For the fourth consecutive year, hundreds of thousands of people will take to the streets in Argentina with the slogan #NiUnaMenos (Not One Less) to protest against femicides, transfemicides, travesticides, and all forms of sexist violence. The slogans of this demonstration are: Without legal abortion, there is no #NiUnaMenos; Against the IMF, austerity, and debt; We want to be alive, free, and debt-free.
"For most media outlets, our transvestite or trans identity is disposable and ridiculable," writes Violeta Alegre.
Thirty-five years ago, the journal Science first named the Human Immune Deficiency Virus, HIV. From that May 20, 1983, to this May 20, 2018, the progress made is evident in the fact that I am now writing this. But it is not enough.
Two weeks after being sentenced to five and a half years in prison for “attempted homicide” for defending himself against his attackers, Joe Lemonge, a 25-year-old trans man from Entre Ríos, who had long been harassed by three neighbors, arrived in Buenos Aires. With the support of LGBTQ+ activists, he was able to leave Santa Elena, a town of 17,000 inhabitants where he had lived and suffered his entire life.
The government of Santa Fe granted a pension to a transgender woman, recognizing that she was persecuted during the dictatorship for her gender identity. "This pension is a historical reparation," said Carolina Boetti.
By Florencia Capella. Screenplay: Ana Fornaro and María Eugenia Ludueña.
Football and advertising, in the last (at least) 20 years of history, have remained unchanged. No social forces, no regulatory advances, no shifts, and above all, no pretense. They are two extremely powerful sectors of society that don't even need to feign compliance or make public commitments.
Yesterday was one of the most tense moments of the trial for the transvesticide of Diana Sacayán, the transvestite activist and human rights defender murdered in October 2015.
We discussed everything that happened at the seventh hearing of the trial for the transphobic murder of Diana Sacayán. We also covered the hearing that convicted Joe Lamonge, a trans man accused of attempted murder, and the ongoing demands for justice in the province of Entre Ríos, among other topics.
Transvestite and trans activists and militants, feminist groups and sexual dissidents demonstrated this Monday afternoon at the door of the Courts, in Paraná, to demand the acquittal of Joe Lemonge, the young trans man sentenced to five years and six months in prison after being considered "material author of attempted homicide".
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