The contrast between the cold, public building room and the emotion of those paying tribute marked the atmosphere of the homage to Diana Sacayán in the Chamber of Deputies. Today marked two years since the murder of the Argentine trans activist, and her family, friends, and fellow activists gathered to remember her and demand justice for her transphobic murder.
Sheyla Brítez, a 20-year-old trans woman, was stabbed ten times and suffered a cut to her forehead on Friday night. Trans women are denouncing an increase in violence against them, fueled by the rise of fundamentalist rhetoric.
A man stabbed a trans woman in an area near the campus of the National University of Asunción (UNA), in the town of San Lorenzo (Greater Asunción).
Dalma Emilce Lobo is a 39-year-old trans activist: a survivor in Latin America, where trans people have a life expectancy of 35. This week she was tried for attempted robbery. "It was a fabricated case," she has repeated since October 23, 2014.
Until September, the production that brings together two works by the Argentine writer, cartoonist, and playwright Copi can be seen in Buenos Aires. “Eva Perón” and “The Homosexual or the Difficulty of Expressing Oneself” revisit – sometimes with excessive solemnity – two works where body and word resonate around power, confinement, and trans identity.
Pamela Tabares was 35 years old and lived in extremely vulnerable conditions. On Tuesday night, she went to work in the red-light district and never returned: she was murdered with at least five gunshots. The Prosecutor's Office is investigating the motive. It is known that she had unsuccessfully sought state assistance. Friends and activists remember her.
Yahajaira Falcón is a human rights activist and, for the past two years, an official in the Public Defender's Office of the City of Buenos Aires. She tells us about her experience holding a public office, analyzes the reality of trans and travesti people at risk of homelessness, and how the community is reorganizing itself in the face of increased police repression.
More than two thousand people marched on International LGBT Pride Day from Plaza de Mayo to the Argentine Congress to say: enough with transvesticide.
Hundreds of activists bid farewell to and paid tribute to Maite Amaya, the trans activist, feminist, picket line leader, and anarchist from Córdoba. Her life story is a testament to the popular struggles against capitalism and patriarchy, and an example of consistency between thought and action.
Argentine photographer and trans activist Flor Guimaraes began her activism under the tutelage of Lohana Berkins and found in photography a way to resist and give visibility to her fellow trans women. Her exhibition “Furia Travesti” (Trans Fury), which has been running for several months, will conclude at the Library of Congress in conjunction with the presentation of her book “La Roy. Revolución de una trava” (La Roy. A Trans Woman's Revolution).
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