Afro-Brazilian trans women are not just victims or spectators — they are survivors, leaders, politicians, theorists, scholars, teachers, activists, thinkers and doers.
If you had told Ayesha Kapur 10 years ago that she would help lead the fight against one of the world’s oldest laws criminalizing gay sex, she would never have believed you.
There’s a growing section of the LGBT+ community that is calling themselves Queer, but don’t assume that all people in the community want to be called that word.