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Cecilia Palmeiro: “Activism was and continues to be the best school for me”

A PhD in Literature, a theorist of queer feminism, a member of the Ni Una Menos collective, a writer, a scholar of Néstor Perlongher's work, and an activist, Cecilia Palmeiro says she never fit into the binary and that for a long time she felt like a faggot trapped in a heteronormative regime. *Cat Power, la toma de la tierra* (Cat Power, the Land Takeover) is her first novel.

#Books: Let the World Tremble, Effy's Memoirs

As a preview, we reproduce one of the texts by the “conceptual, performance, and queer feminist artist”—according to her own definition—compiled in a free downloadable e-book: Let the World Tremble: Body and Performance in the Work of Effy Beth. Published by the National University of La Plata Press, it brings together disruptive interventions, images, writings, and perspectives on…

#Books: Living with Viruses, by Marta Dillon

For 10 years, her columns in the No supplement of the newspaper Página/12 revealed much more than a series of shimmering snapshots of living with HIV: her own stories and those of others, connections, farewells, clinics, fears, scars, and gems. It was the 1990s, and Marta Dillon's words opened spaces for debate, testimony, and support. On World AIDS Day, we republish…

Jáuregui wrote: "I carry you here like a mark on my body"

Twenty years after the death of the Argentine icon for the fight for LGBTI rights, the book Here We Are. Carlos Jáuregui, Sexuality and Politics in Argentina, collects his unpublished texts, journalistic articles, photos and archives, but also snapshots of his intimacy, activism and legacy. Compiled by Gustavo Pecoraro, writer and journalist, and edited by the Buenos Aires City Legislature, it features valuable contributions and perspectives from Martín de Grazia, Diana Maffia, Ernesto Meccia, Mario Pecheny, Mabel Bellucci, Cesar Cigliutti, Marcelo Ferreyra, Alejandra Sardá, Héctor Anabitarte, Osvaldo Bazán, Ilse Fuskova and Alejandro Modarelli, as well as texts from Buenos Aires legislators -Andrea Conde (FpV), Roy Cortina (PS), Maximiliano Ferraro (CC-ARI), Pablo Ferreyra (FpV) and Patricio del Corro (PTS-FIT)- and the Deputy Head of Government of the City, Diego Santilli.

Jáuregui wrote: "I carry you here like a mark on my body"

Twenty years after the death of the Argentine icon for the fight for LGBTI rights, the book Here We Are. Carlos Jáuregui, Sexuality and Politics in Argentina, collects his unpublished texts, journalistic articles, photos and archives, but also snapshots of his intimacy, activism and legacy. Compiled by Gustavo Pecoraro, writer and journalist, and edited by the Buenos Aires City Legislature, it features valuable contributions and perspectives from Martín de Grazia, Diana Maffia, Ernesto Meccia, Mario Pecheny, Mabel Bellucci, Cesar Cigliutti, Marcelo Ferreyra, Alejandra Sardá, Héctor Anabitarte, Osvaldo Bazán, Ilse Fuskova and Alejandro Modarelli, as well as texts from Buenos Aires legislators -Andrea Conde (FpV), Roy Cortina (PS), Maximiliano Ferraro (CC-ARI), Pablo Ferreyra (FpV) and Patricio del Corro (PTS-FIT)- and the Deputy Head of Government of the City, Diego Santilli.