The Spring 2025 issue of the NACLA Report on the Americas delves into the potent creativity and shattering urgency of travesti and trans politics across the Americas. The following pieces make up the Web Exclusive section of the issue, bringing poetic expression and visual imagery to this historic issue.
Read the editor’s introduction from Cole Rizki for more.
WEB EXCLUSIVES
Destierro y Desmar: Embroidering Experiences of Internal Migration and Forced Displacement
Morgan Londoño Marín
For transmasculine activists uprooted from the lands and waters they called home, embroidery and poetry become practices for expressing nostalgia and building community in Bogotá. Read more.
Afro-Feminist Poetics and Trans Life in Cuba: A Conversation with Max Fonseca
Kerry M. White with Max Fonseca
The poet and activist talks about the precarity that trans, queer, and Afrodescendent people in Cuba face today, and the life sustaining worlds built by Black trans women in Cuba and its diaspora. Read more.
Hacia las lenguas del corazón/ Towards Languages of the Heart
Georgie Sánchez
An art collaboration between two activists and friends involves the sharing of blood as an act of diasporic love, colonial reckoning, and collective repair for queer, travesti, and trans people of color. Read more.
Bodies on Fire: Toloposungo’s Trans-Marika Abolitionist Performance
Cecilia Azar
In Colombia, a trans-marika vogue collective takes to the streets to denounce state violence and call for police abolition. Read more.
