#transformistas

[justdavina]

Such a sexy cross-dresser!

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Daniela Patricia Olivieri

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Johnny Ray de Iris Chacón en su programa de televisión Esto Es Un Show

[softwarmfur]

LIFE CHANGING GAME CHANGING EARTH SHATTERING. I HAVENT BEEN THE SAME.

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En un emotivo tributo a la figura emblemática de La Lecherita, Dita Dubois, reconocido transformista, presentó uno de los looks más significativos en la categoría Rural Fashion Week. La exposición no solo destaca la creatividad de Dubois, sino que también celebra la esencia y la lucha de la mujer rural. El homenaje surge de una

[nicolasfolch]

serie dedicada al universo Drag Queen, con Louna Lusitana.

[shirleystonyrock]

Amor a la mexicana en @churros_mad_fiesta 🥳 en la @salacoolmadrid 💃 . . . #shirleystonyrock #shirleydrag #drag #dragqueen #backstage #thalia #transformation #transformista #arrasando #makeup #dragrace #dragperfection #dragshow #dragqueenshow #welovequeens #makeupartist #dragraceespaña #dragstardiva #dragqueensofinstagram #travesti #dragespaña #dragqueenlatina #latindragqueen #latina #showmadrid #ESCANDALO (en Madrid, Spain) https://www.instagram.com/p/CnUoWcIDk9u/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[kimberly-ld]

Allexa Dantas, representante de Minas Gerais, foi coroada Miss Brasil Gay 2024, conquistando o título com sua elegância, presença de palco e forte carisma. Em uma competição acirrada, Allexa se destacou não apenas pela sua beleza, mas também pela confiança e inteligência que demonstrou em cada etapa do concurso. Sua vitória reflete o empenho e a dedicação com que preparou-se para representar seu estado e, agora, todo o país. Como Miss Brasil Gay 2024, Allexa Dantas tem a oportunidade de levar adiante mensagens de inclusão, respeito e diversidade, inspirando a comunidade LGBTQIA+ e todos que a acompanham.

[justdavina]

OMG!!! Francisca Thompson has to be the hottest transgender woman ! She is 31 from Valparaíso, Chile. She placed 15th in the first season of Rupuals "The Switch Drag Race"

She's first place in my book!

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Isabella Vargas González

[colectivodivu]

Mi #ki es lo suficientemente poderoso #miciela 💅 y #laquesoporte #dragonball pedí a #santaclaus un #vegeta #transformista https://www.instagram.com/p/CmsW4dcDacu/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[makingqueerhistory]

do you have anything about venezuelan queer history :)?

Yes, we have the story of Victor Hugo (Rojas), and as for other sources I did a little digging and found Dark Tears: LGBTQ Resilience in Latin America By Claudia Jares, as well as Queen for a Day: Transformistas, Beauty Queens, and the Performance of Femininity in Venezuela By Marcia Ochoa. I hope this is helpful!

[abtrusion]

Trans-national Ethnography Reading List

Studies of trans in the academy usually kind of suck. There is a tendency to speak through us, to understand our claims to gender as either pitiful or dangerously conformist, and generally to just not listen to anything we have to say. Gender has traditionally been the property of feminist theorists, who have produced a lot of great work that's well worth using. But any researcher who does not seriously contend with the anti-feminine and anti-porn tendencies of feminist theory will find it impossible to take trans seriously: we tend to be really hot, sort of sexual, and always a little bit too loud.

Ethnographic research is pretty resistant to these academic neuroses. Because ethnographic work involves months-long immersion in a group and participation in its members' daily lives, ethnographers are forced to identify with trans people for extended periods of time, which tends to bleed away the worst of this shit [1]. Ethnography also has a strong ethic toward preserving research subjects' ways of seeing the world, enforced via direct quotes, frequent narration, and the prioritization of endogenous terms which research subjects already use. As a pleasant side effect, this also makes ethnographies a bit clearer to read than your average academic tome.

So with that in mind, I've got a list of stuff to read. If you are unused to academic jargon I would recommend the books (in italics), because they tend to be more 'traditional' and therefore readable. They're also more accessible because certain sites carry a wide catalog of free digital books. The articles aren't too bad either, but ethnography really deserves a few hundred pages more than an article gives, so the writing always looks a little bit squished. I'd read "Decolonizing Transgender in India" anyways, as well as Kira Hall's excellent piece.

READINGS

Imagining Transgender: An Ethnography of a Category. By David Valentine.

The Kothi Wars: AIDS Cosmopolitanism and the Morality of Classification. By Lawrence Cohen.

Decolonizing Transgender in India: Some Reflections. By Aniruddha Dutta and Raina Roy.

Dissenting Differently: Solidarities and Tensions between Student Organizing and Trans-Kothi-Hijra Activism in Eastern India. By Aniruddha Dutta.

Elsewheres in Queer Hindutva: A Hijra Case Study. By Aniruddha Dutta.

Subjectivities, Knowledge, and Gendered and Sexual Transitions. By Paul Boyce and Aksay Khanna, chapter in the Cambridge Handbook for the Anthropology of Gender and Sexuality.

Shifting gender positions among Hindi-speaking hijras. By Kira Hall.

Perverse Citizenship: Divas, Marginality, and Participation in "Loca-lization." By Marcia Ochoa.

Queen for a Day: Transformistas, Beauty Queens, and the Performance of Femininity in Venezuela. By Marcia Ochoa.

The Made-Up State: Technology, Trans Femininity, and Citizenship in Indonesia. By Benjamin Hegarty.

Beauty that Matters: Brazilian "Travesti" Sex Workers Feeling Beautiful. By Julieta Vartabedian.

Bodies and desires on the internet: An approach to trans women sex workers’ websites. By Julieta Vartabedian.

Footnotes

The disgust can come back once they get away from us for a while. See Annick Prieur's 1994 article and her 1998 book, which have pretty different levels of casual transmisogynistic hate.

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Hoy jueves 10 de octubre, a las 21:00 horas, la Plaza de la Iglesia se convertirá en el epicentro de la diversidad y el arte drag con la celebración de la espectacular Gala Drag Queen & Transformista, en el marco de las Fiestas de La Perdoma 2024. La entrada es gratuita, una oportunidad única para