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.
The public trial for the transphobic murder of Amancay Diana Sacayán will begin on February 16, 2018. This was announced by the Oral Criminal and Correctional Court No. 4 of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires.
Today marks two years since the death of Lohana Berkins, the iconic trans activist and human rights leader from Argentina. This afternoon, at 6 PM, a tribute will be held in Plaza de los Dos Congresos in Buenos Aires.
We trans women know about feminism because we betrayed the patriarchy twice. First, by leaving it, and second, by attacking it. Very few of us are surviving; we're dying younger and younger.
Keili González, a trans activist from Entre Ríos, was first insulted by a legislator and then subjected to media violence for participating in the Pride March. In this opinion piece, she recounts part of her story and challenges the media: “It’s time the media focused on how to include our voices and perspectives, how to understand what sexual diversity is, and how to do so without stigmatizing or ridiculing us.”
More than 400 people, convened by the National Front for the Health of People with HIV, gathered at 2:00 PM in front of the Ministry of Health for an open assembly to analyze the situation following last week's reports of a shortage of medications for HIV patients in several Argentine provinces. On Thursday, the government issued a statement declaring the problems with the delivery of supplies resolved and announcing that deliveries would return to normal next week.
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