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…
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…
What do we mean when we talk about lesbian visibility? Women from different generations share what visibility means to each of them today.
Transvestite and transgender people. “Although the allowance was very low, this program was very important because it served as a gateway to employment and training without having to go through a lot of paperwork. Furthermore, that amount counted towards seniority for retirement. For transvestite and transgender people, it's not easy to access…”
Transgender people in Resistencia (Chaco) will occupy 1% of the municipal jobs. Yesterday, Mayor Jorge Capitanich signed the resolution regulating Ordinance 11936, which approved the equal employment opportunity policy for transgender people.
This morning, Mariana Gómez had her hearing at the Criminal and Correctional Court of Appeals in the City of Buenos Aires. Early on, activists and family members gathered at Viamonte 1147 to support the 25-year-old and her wife, Rocío Girat, both victims of police violence in an incident last October that resulted in Mariana's indictment and asset seizure for "resisting authority and assault."
Photo: Presentes Agency. LGBTI leaders rejected the Mendoza provincial government's initiative to create a database of people from that community: in addition to being discriminatory and persecutory, they consider it a setback in terms of diversity rights. According to a press release from the Ministry of Health, Social Development and…
Since adolescence, I've wondered how my trans identity relates to beauty. Why my body was and is rarely seen as beautiful. I was always taught that being trans—being obviously trans—meant being ugly.
Last Friday, Valeria Licciardi, a former participant in the reality show Big Brother, was the only trans woman invited to discuss feminism, transphobia, the right to abortion, among other issues, on the program Intrusos, hosted by Jorge Rial.
On Saturday, February 10th at 4:30 pm, we will hold the First Binational (Rioplatense) Transvestite/Trans Meeting. It will take the form of an assembly, emerging from dialogue with our Uruguayan sisters, to develop and design a common agenda and build networks.
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