Bulletin T-informa / Year I - Issue 009
CONTENT
Campaign: New options for a day of No violence against Tran’s people
The survey we start in June had finished with a large number of participants. We say thank you to all those people who participated in the survey and gave their opinion. In order to get known new options for the Day of No violence against Tran’s people we star a new survey,
¡Vote in the survey!
Notes: Transgender and Transsexual Identities: The Next Strange Fruit—Hate Crimes, Violence and Genocide Against the Global Trans-Communities
In this paper, we review the literature on global transgender hate crimes, violence, and abuse. We point out that it is possible to infer that this problem is not localized to the United States but rather, represents a global pandemic of focused prejudice. We provide concrete examples from the researchers’ field studies as well as from the published literature.
Books: Didactic Guide about Transsexuality for Youngsters and Teenagers
Lesbian, Gays, Transsexuals and Bisexuals Collective of Madrid (Colectivo de Lesbianas, Gays, Transexuales y Bisexuales de Madrid), COGAM, 2007. www.cogam.org
This is a long and deep interview that gives us a lot of information about the construction of Tran’s identity. It talks about a woman that discovers herself at her 37 years old. Because of the extension, in this first part we only publish issues refer to family and identity.
Interview: Joán (Second part)
“Now things are different because all my effort is focus on me, be myself, it is not important any more making money, is be myself”.
This is a long and deep interview that gives us a lot of information about the construction of Tran’s identity. It talks about a woman that discovers herself at her 37 years old. In this second part we publish issues refer to education, violence and sexuality.
Personalities: Jan Morris
She is the first writer who famously chronicled her sex-change operation in the book Conundrum.
Arts: Exhibition “Discrimination is dehumanization”
The Estanquillo Museum exhibit “Discrimination is dehumanization” which was made by Amnesty International to population know about lesbian, gays, bisexuals and Trans (LGBT) human rights.
Conference: All about the 24rth World Conference of ILGA
Download the files of the Conference: Schedule, agenda, resolutions, proposals to amend ILGA constitution and standing orders.
See the newsletter N° 009
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T-informa Bulletin
Financed by Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals, Trans and Intersexuals International Associated (ILGA) and
The Swedish Federation for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Rights ( RFSL)
Director: Belissa Andía Pérez / Editor: Bethsabé Huamán / Designer: Vanessa Laura
Regional Collaboraters: LAC: Andrés Rivera / Europe: Justus Eisfeld / ANZAPI: Joey Mataele / USA: Aidan Dunn
Note: Please excuse mistakes. Translation is our own responsability, we are looking for voluntaries for translation.
