This issue of the NACLA Report explores travesti-trans politics across the Americas, an antifascist and transversal politics with the power to reshape our world. Not primarily a politics of sex and gender, travesti and trans politics splice and weave connections across movements and territories, suggesting coalitional possibilities and strategies for resistance that scramble identity-based politics and movement organizing. Their strategies and connections prioritize the imperatives of unruly Black, Brown, travesti, and trans cuerpos furiosos born of rage and forged in struggle.
From Guatemala to the Dominican Republic, from Colombia to Brazil, from Argentina to Ecuador, travesti and trans politics contest not only shared historical and contemporary experiences of fascism and state violence, but, time and again, they also conjure fugitive and creative acts of resistance. These acts burst forth from ballroom to vogue, from creative mutual aid to community-based care, from spoken word to embroidered chapbooks, from performance art to documentary film—unfurling across city streets, gallery spaces, printed pages, and bodies in revolt.
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