This contribution explores the reality of trans children’s lives, the social contexts in which they evolve, their games and their emotions; but also trans children’s struggles, the strategies and spaces of autonomy…
Could we learn to grieve without fetishizing our dead (human or more-than-human)? Could we spend more time with our dead without making them into “steps” in the advancement of other causes?
Medical violence is central to the narration of our past and present trans experiences, and also structures the way trans hirstory is collected, constructed and told, both epistemologically and materially. Drawing on…
Invisibilisation, erasure, dispossession; numerous are the forms of incompleteness affecting trans* archives. Writing a compensatory or reparative trans* history often proves to be the solution. However, other archival strategies and practices –…
Through a methodology based on Oral History interviews and archival research, this communication focuses on the theatrical strategies developed by trans activists to platform their revendications in France. It centers the analysis…
Borrowing the expression hirstory from the artist Chris Vargas, the conference Trans Hirstory and Art, whose proceedings we publish in this dossier, aimed to create spaces for a plurality of approaches towards…
We have heard enough from the people who complain about an “epidemic of transgenders.” This harmful term compares being trans with a contagious illness and ignores an entire swath of history. The…
Whether working behind the camera, in casting studios, nightclubs, or on a football field, river is methodically helping trans and queer people gain visibility. For a long time, the film industry’s conservative…
In this video portrait dedicated to them, the delegate of Diversity & Inclusion at HEAD – Genève, Nayansaku Mufwankolo, highlights the different stages that have allowed them to develop their practice. From…