Bulletin T-informa / Year II - 2009 - Issue 019
Notes: How trans people are quoted in a research paper? Rehearsing some answers
By Crissthian Olviera
I recently found myself in a dilemma that I never imagined to have as human rights activist in GLBT movement: how to include trans people in a research papel? With the social name or the legal one? What was the rigorous academic and legally speaking?
Identity: Claude Cahun
Born in Nantes, on October 25th, 1894. It was named after Lucy Renée Mathilde Schwob, but over the years turned into Claude Chaun, expressed through his poems and photogtaphs inspired by untamed sensibility and intimate nature directed to claim the sexual identities.
Interviews: Interview with Belissa Andía
This time our interviewer was caught by the microphone, so she could share her personal take situation in the trans world.
Books: Political culture and discrimination
Gutiérrez L., Roberto
Mexico DF: CONAPRED, 2008
This is an interesting publication of the National Council to Prevent Discrimination in Mexico, developing the idea of political culture as one of the factors that contribute to or diminish discrimination.
Conference: ILGA-LAC Regional Conference (2010)
ILGA’s 5th Latin American and Caribbean Regional Conference will be held in Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil, on January 27th to 30th 2010. Registration will be open until midnight (Brazilian standard time) on November 30th 2009.
Analysis and research about trans legislation: Good news from Sweden
For a long time transpeople have been denied the right to legal name change by the government offices in charge of these issues. The name law has been intrerpreted by the authorities that a person who is legallly male can not have a female first or middle name.
