The trans and travesti population suffered—and continues to suffer—systematic persecution and human rights violations by the Argentine state. LGBTI organizations are promoting “Recognizing is Repairing,” a campaign that seeks to raise awareness of this violence and pass into law a bill for a special pension for survivors. By: @Inflafoy Photos: Ariel Gutraich Norma…
María Belén Correa, with the support of photographer Cecilia Estalles Alcón, set out to collect personal photographs and documentation from the Argentine transvestite, transgender, and transsexual community to rescue from oblivion those who, due to repressive laws and discrimination, were erased from social history. Thus, the Memory Archive was born…
Within the framework of the #RecognizeIsRepair Campaign, and with the purpose of demanding the immediate parliamentary consideration of bill 2526 “Reparation Regime for Victims of Institutional Violence Based on Gender Identity,” various sexual diversity organizations and self-organized individuals gathered in front of the Argentine National Congress to take a collective photo, to put their bodies on the line…
Muxes are people from the indigenous community of Juchitán, Mexico, who are born with male biology but identify as female. Integrated into their culture since pre-Hispanic times, they only began dressing as women in the 1960s. Presentes spoke with Amaranta Gómez Regalado, a muxe activist and social anthropologist, who explains how the tensions between the global and the local also affect the struggles for sexual diversity in Latin America.
Based in the La Boca neighborhood of Buenos Aires, its name is a tribute to Paco Jamandreu, Evita's friend and personal dressmaker. The business prints
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