América transgenerx

Session Submission Type: Workshop

Abstract

The transgender and travesti populations in Latin America and trans Latinx populations in the United States face several forms of violence. State and nonstate actors violate their rights to life and personal integrity. They encounter systemic barriers to access healthcare, education, documented status, and the labor market. Human rights organizations report the impact of different forms of violence on these populations, mainly the number of killings, serious attacks, degrading treatment and torture that they suffer across all social institutions and contexts such as the workplace, the streets, and in prison. Macro and microaggressions plague their existence. Despite the widespread underreporting and lack of official data regarding their wellbeing, trans, travesti, and trans Latinx populations have a long history of organizing against invisibility and precarity. Through transnational advocacy and cultural labor targeting state agencies, civil society, and other minoritized collectivities, they activate myriad modes of resistance against transphobia in its many guises.

Sub Track

• Sexualities and LGBTQ Studies

Session Organizer

• Suyapa G Portillo Villeda, Pitzer College

Chair

• Pedro Javier DiPietro, Syracuse University and PRIGEPP/FLACSO

Presenters

• Jennicet Gutierrez

• Marlene Wayar

• Susy Shok

• Indyra M Mendoza Aguilar, Independent Scholar

• Kali Nahil Zerón Flores, CATTRACHAS

• Pilar Salazar Argueta, Centro de Investigacion Q'anil