To Exist and Resist

These selected photographs serve as a representation of the activist work carried out by documentary photographer Eugenia Azar, who accompanies the struggle of the travesti trans collective Las Históricas Argentinas (The Historic Trans Femininities and Travestis). Las Históricas are at the forefront of the fight for historic reparations as victims of a genocidal state whose organization is designed to systematically eliminate them. This claim emerged in 2005 but was overshadowed by other demands for civil rights, such as marriage equality and a law recognizing gender identity. It resurfaced with renewed strength in 2021 amid the pandemic. Faced with the socio-sanitary crisis and state abandonment, the travesti trans collective self-organized. The pandemic exposed the ongoing material deprivation of socioeconomic rights for the collective that results in avoidable deaths under conditions of extreme poverty. Settling this debt, along with the generational trauma of having survived genocide, entails laying the foundation to ensure a different future for new generations

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