Border Crossings / Cruzando Fronteras: Trans Life Across the US-Mexico Border

As trans rights and embodiment are under attack in the United States, trans activists and legal activists are advancing a broad trans rights agenda in Mexico, introducing legislation in Congress to codify the rights of children to claim and express their gender identity as they and their parents see fit. Meanwhile, like millions of other migrants, Mexicans and Mexican American trans women have historically lived across and beyond national boundaries. Our invited guests discuss their experiences of advocating for trans rights in Mexico and the United States, of the joy and grief of living trans lives across national boundaries, and of the Venn Diagram that is migrant death and trans deaths in the U.S. Southwest. The panelists' discussion of their experiences cruzando gendered, legal and geographic fronteras will be accompanied by two performances that illustrate the complexity of living life across boundaries.

The panel will consist of a conversation with Children’s Rights Legal Advocate Tania Morales; Author and Activist Alejandra R. DeRuiz; Performance Artists and Activists Lía García, and Angel Lartigue, moderated by Prof. Laura Gutierrez.

Friday, October 25, 2024, 5 to 7pm 

20 Cooper Square, Room 101