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A play about trans love
The play "If You Love Me, Love Me Trans" speaks of desires, unfulfilled dreams, and hard-won victories. It is performed by the 7 Colores Diversidad Theater Company, directed by the trans playwright Daniela Ruiz.
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#BuenosAires The trans job quota was approved in Florencio Varela
The trans community of Florencio Varela experienced a historic day. The City Council unanimously approved a trans employment quota, establishing that 1% of positions within the municipality and the private sector must be filled by transgender people. Like the provincial law, the ordinance is named after the murdered trans activist, Diana Amancay Sacayán.
Two trans activists fight in court for the right to their names
Mariana Sepúlveda and Yren Rotela are human rights activists and leaders of Panambí, an organization that defends and promotes the rights of transgender people. Paraguay does not have a gender identity law, but they successfully obtained a court order granting them legal name changes. However, the Paraguayan Public Prosecutor's Office appealed in both cases, and they are now awaiting a ruling. Here they share their stories, two tales of struggle.
#NiUnaMenos "Stop femicides and transphobic murders, we want to live"
Dissident sexualities made their presence felt at the fourth Argentine feminist demonstration #NiUnaMenos that took place in downtown Buenos Aires.
The State must compensate a young trans woman abused by two police officers.
The government of the province of Mendoza will have to pay $500,000 in moral damages to a young trans woman who was abused by two police officers when she was 17 years old, in January 2011. This was ordered by a ruling of the Civil Court No. 16.
Alexa, the first trans skater in Argentina
She is 31 years old and the first transgender skater accepted by the Argentine Speed Skating Confederation and the third athlete competing in the female category. Today, she seeks to raise awareness of the transgender struggle in San Pedro, where she was born and raised.
Column #19 Present at You Can't Live on Love 2018
In this column we recount everything that was said in the arguments of the prosecution and INADI in the final stretch of the trial for the transvesticide of Diana Sacayán, and about the right to access health with the letter of a bisexual woman to her former gynecologist.
Camila Sosa Villada: “Writing is not therapeutic, the wound is still there”
“My first official act of cross-dressing wasn’t going out in public dressed as a woman, legally speaking. My first act of cross-dressing was through writing,” the author writes. Upward, downward, and outward, the text expands with the voraciousness of a cannibalistic plant, daring to speak, to think. Even to remain silent.
Column #18 Present at You Can't Live on Love 2018
In our latest news column on You Can't Live on Love, we talked about INADI's argument in the trial for the transvesticide of Diana Sacayán; about the reparation for a trans woman who survived the dictatorship; and about the interview we did with Joe Lemonge, among other topics.
Interview with Joe Lemonge: “My will to resist saves me”
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.