Today we held the first GENI seminar of the academic year: México Lindo…y Transfóbico: experiencias del ser trans en Sonora y el valle de Toluca by María Fernanda Velarde and Edith Villavicencio, visiting researchers at GENI
Fernanda Velarde presented her ethnographic research in Hermosillo, Sonora, highlighting the difficulties and challenges that trans people face to live in accordance to their gender identity, as well as the resistance and resilience strategies they mobilise in order to overcome these barriers. Her research focuses on trans people social representations of the challenges they face in the Sonoran context. The situation of trans people in Sonora – Slides
Edith Villavicencio presented her PhD research entitled “Subjetividades encarnadas trans y luchas reivindicativas entre personas y/o colectivos trans en el Valle de Toluca”, which focuses on (de)subjectification processes among trans people and groups, and the transformations on the articulation of their demands in the Toluca Valley. Embodied Subjectivities
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