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Lohana Berkins – Travesti Rage Always!

Argentinean trans* activist, Lohana Berkins, died in Buenos Aires on February 5, 2016. AWID joins the voices and hearts remembering Lohana, a trans* activist who, along with others, created Asociación de Lucha por la Identidad Travesti y Transexual [ALITT, Association to Fight for Travesti and Transsexual Identity] in 1994. In 2008, she created and led “Nadia Echazú”, a textile cooperative, which is also a workshop-school […]

Remembering Lohana Berkins: Activist, Leader and Proud Transvesti

The LGBTQ community in Argentina, and the region at large continues to mourn the loss of one of its most vocal and compassionate leaders. Lohana Berkins, founding president of The Association for the Fight for Travesti and Transexual Identity (ALITT) passed away last week after a long period of hospitalization.

Mourning Lohana Berkins

On February 5th, the Argentinean trans leadership Lohana Berkins has departed. Lohana was recognized worldwide as a champion of trans rights as well as a an admirable person whose life was imprinted by great energy, large solidarity and lots of humor. SPW has deeply mourned Lohana departure and share the various tributes to honor her […]

Lohana Berkins: after her death, she left us a legacy of trans and feminist struggle

It dawns. She leaves behind a dominant world angered by her smile, an enemy world that is not ours, a passage from silence to speech; lives crossed, names and identities that no longer pay with their bodies, under a sky that heals as it challenges us. It is dawning in tears and, accompanied, Lohana Berkins dies in Buenos Aires.

Lesbian, Bisexual and Queer Women Speak Out in Kenya

Laughter, solidarity, and conviviality were in the air at a quietly remarkable event in a Nairobi hotel on February 12. Yet the subject matter discussed at the event was anything but light: depression and suicide, public stripping and rape. The Gay and Lesbian Coalition of Kenya (GALCK) was presenting its new report, “Research on the Lived Realities of Lesbian, Bisexual and Queer Women in Kenya.”

New IDS research reveals impact of militarism on violence against women in Gaza

This year’s 16 Days Against Gender-based Violence campaign focuses specifically on the relationship between militarism and the right to education. This right to education should include the availability of proper educational infrastructure and facilities as well as safe access. Unfortunately, however, this is not the daily reality of school-aged children everywhere in the world: discrimination, […]

‘In Guatemala to be a feminist is not welcomed, a lesbian, even less so. I am a lesbian feminist’

Sandra Moran, the first openly gay member of Congress in Guatemala, says LGBT rights don’t define her – she is mainly known as a champion of women and indigenous people Sandra Moran made history when she took her seat in Guatemala’s Congress in January Photograph: Sandra Moran Nina Lakhani in Guatemala City Thursday 11 February […]

Is the world finally waking up to intersex rights?

A landmark directive in Chile last month said doctors should stop ‘normalisation’ surgery, but tackling the global systematic, societal and cultural abuse against intersex people is an uphill battle When a baby is born the first question is usually about its sex. But for one in 2,000 people binary notions of male and female are […]

Sexual Politics in January 2016

The global epidemics fueled by the mosquito-born Zika virus, its potential correlation with microcephaly and the connection with abortion rights is one main headline in the sexual politics scenario of January 2016. And Brazil is at center of this crisis. To delve in the subject read Sonia Corrêa’s article. Then good news in relation to […]

Report documents anti-trans violence in Central America

A new report indicates transgender women in Central America remain particularly vulnerable to discrimination and violence.

LGBT Backlash in Indonesia

Last week in Jakarta, I met leaders of the Support Group and Resource Center on Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Indonesia, who were brimming with confidence about their work with lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people.

Planned Parenthood cleared of accusations of selling human tissue

Planned Parenthood has been cleared of accusations of selling human tissue, after covert videos released last year prompted the investigation. A Houston grand jury instead indicted the leader of an anti-abortion group that recorded the videos of the organization’s employees.