Trans Rights

Artist Germa Machuca uses her body as an altar and guiding light to illuminate the connections across anti-trans and anti-Indigenous violence in Peru.

Travesti and trans workers in the formal sector expand imaginaries about the relationship between LGTBQ+ people and work, contributing to broader labor struggles for all of society.

Violence against trans men by state forces is widespread—and little studied. The profiling inherent to mandatory military service only aggravates the problem.

A sex-dissident archive recovers the memory of the struggle to decriminalize homosexuality in Ecuador through affective and archival work that combats invisibilization and patriarchal erasure.

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.

The Spring 2025 issue of the NACLA Report explores travesti-trans politics across the Americas, an antifascist and transversal politics with the power to reshape our world. 

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.

Don't miss the web exclusive content from our Spring 2025 issue, Cuerpos Furiosos: Trans-Travesti Politics in Revolt.

In Colombia, a trans-marika vogue collective takes to the streets to denounce state violence and call for police abolition.

In the face of discriminatory narratives and laws in Argentina, activists advocate for anti-racist, transfeminist initiatives during this year’s International Women’s Day.

The Tuiuiti samba school uplifts trans identities and highlights the political dimensions of Brazil’s Carnival celebrations.

Drag performers mine the story of the revolutionary hero and trans icon Amelio Robles to better understand the past and shape the future.