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"Transvesticide, the latest link in the chain of daily violence against transvestites and trans people"

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Argentine activist Sasha Sacayán, Diana's brother, reflects on the violence against transvestites and trans people in recent months and points the finger at the state. A march will be held on June 28th with the slogan #StopTransMurders. And on Saturday the 24th, a gathering will be held to launch the Justice for Diana Sacayán Campaign. Why are the rights of transvestite and trans people violated both in life and after death?

Nobody knows what a body can do: the story of The Countess

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Laura Dominique Pilleri was serving a prison sentence when she became the first woman in Córdoba to obtain an ID card recognizing her gender identity. A trans woman, activist, writer, university student, and sex worker, she died in October 2015. This installation at the National University of Córdoba—also accessible online—commemorates her life and struggles with the slogan: “No one knows what a body is capable of.”

#DianaSacayán: Who is Saint Jean, the prosecutor removed for defending Etchecolatz?

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Prosecutor Marcelo Saint Jean defended individuals convicted of crimes against humanity, including Miguel Etchecolatz and Norberto Cozzani. Because of this background, the Commission of Relatives and Comrades of Justice for Diana Sacayán-Stop the Murders of Transgender People had requested his removal from the case. His father, Ibérico Saint Jean—former governor of the province of Buenos Aires between 1976 and 1981—was also a defendant. The prosecutor recused himself. Here are the files that document his actions.

University of Mar del Plata, first in Latin America with trans employment quota

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A groundbreaking resolution in the national and regional academic sphere—promoted by the Lohana Berkins Chair—guarantees 1% of non-teaching positions at the National University of Mar del Plata for transgender, transsexual, and gender-diverse individuals. Thirty applicants have already registered. “Unlike what is happening in the province, where the law remains unregulated more than a year after its approval, here the process was expedited,” said a representative.

#8M "We were at the Cathedral and nothing that happened was by chance"

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Sasha Sacayán, a leader of the Anti-Discrimination Liberation Movement (MAL), an organization for the rights of transvestite and trans people founded by her sister Diana, says: “We were able to observe the operation as a whole. There were no disturbances from those of us who were there. Nothing was broken. The media focused on cheap sensationalism when the ‘provocative fanatic’ Ignacio Agustín Montangut appeared. He was neither that fanatical nor that innocent. We managed to remove him from the scene so he wouldn’t become a victim.”