Part of the Humanities Center, Lunch Time Lecture Series on Humanities Research.
Any transgender history of Brazil is incomplete without a discussion of the alternative archives that constitute it. In contrast to official archives that distort this history or make it invisible, the materials collected by trans* people not only record the formation trans* identities, but also reveal the creative and transgressive environments in which some of them have lived their lives. This presentation focuses on trans* people as they negotiated their embodiment and documented their transition during Brazil’s military regime.