Latin American Trans Histories

Who is trans or travesti, non-binary or marica? Before these words were invented, how did gender-variant Latin Americans understand themselves? Please join us for a two-day workshop discussing these questions on 7-8 July @UCLAmericas (online) bit.ly/38WpNGM

Gracias Janek!

The concert has started! Gracias Mocchi

Join us in 30 mins for music with Uruguayan singer @mocchiok to close this wonderful event!

Thank you to all our presenters - now we are hearing questions from the wonderful audience!

Finally Siobhan Fenella Guerrero Mc Manus closes the presentations for the roundtable talking about trans identities and subjectivities from a epistemological perspective

Alba Rueda, Argentina's Special Envoy of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity is now talking about activists and trans policies/politics

.@ColeRizki starts the roundtable with a presentation drawing on his upcoming monograph on state violence and transgender cultural politics in post-dictatorship Argentina

We will be joined by Alba Rueda, Siobhan Fenella Guerrero McManus and @ColeRizki to discuss Living Trans History

Our roundtable is starting soon! Please check your email for the specific link for the roundtable (it is different from the workshop)

To close this workshop @_mori13 will talk to us about rethinking the categories of 'trans' and 'travesti' in Lima at the end of the 1970s

Our third presenter is Michele Pires Lima on the work and activism of Transvestites and Transsexuals in Manaus/Amazonas

Now Lauri Miranda Silva is telling us about the history and memory of travestilidades and transexualidades in Porto Velho and Rondônia in Brazil's Legal Amazon

.@marcebutierrez is first to present, talking about the spatial practices of travestis and transsexuals in Latin America between 1980 and 1999 through mapping archives

Our fourth workshop 'Travesti, Transssexual, Trans' is starting now! Join to listen to fantastic presentations from @marcebutierrez @_mori13 Lauri Miranda Silva and Michele Pires Lima

Gracias, Liz!