Black Travestis: Midwives of the Lgbt Movement

About the author

Letícia Carolina Nascimento. Dr. Letícia Carolina Nascimento holds a PhD in Education from the Federal University of Piauí, where she is a professor of Pedagogy. She is the author of Transfeminism, in the Plural Feminisms series coordinated by Djamila Ribeiro. Full profile ›

This chapter appears in Epistemic Dissonance

Epistemic Dissonance: The (R)existence of Black Travestis and Trans Women in Brazil is a much needed and truly groundbreaking anthology: it is one of the first academic publications that centers the histories and intellectual contributions of Travestis and Trans Women scholars and activists from Latin America. Through centering Brazil, Epistemic Dissonance introduces the reader to the interventions that Travestis and Trans Women are making in envisioning, (re)thinking and theorizing social change. The authors challenge their various marginalizations while living and affirming new modes of existence which encourages everyone not only to resist, but to (R)exist.

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