Pedagogies of Transvestism

Pedagogies of Transvestites records the strategies that transvestites have to teach Brazil about destabilizing regimes of oppression.

In Pedagogies of Travestiality , educator and activist Maria Clara Araújo dos Passos chronicles the struggle of the Transvestite and Transgender Women's Movement in Brazil to ensure that the State recognizes this community as worthy and guarantees them social and political rights. To this end, the author documents the knowledge produced by this collective from 1979 to the present, from its beginnings on the streets to its arrival in the privileged sphere of academia. The publication of this book in Brazil—which has led the terrifying ranking of murders of transvestites and transgender people since 2008—is important to affirm that the existence of these people is not only possible, but essential for the full exercise of citizenship. This edition features an introduction by multi-artist Linn da Quebrada and a foreword by Carla Cristina Garcia, a professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP).

“Maria Clara Araújo dos Passos is one of the most productive scholars on Afrotransfeminisms in Brazil” - Black Women Radicals