Becky Chung
I am a senior at Claremont McKenna College studying government and history. I was interested in the class Gender and Sexuality in Latin America because I am conducting my senior thesis on the history of lesbian activism during the AIDS epidemic. I am interested in better understanding the perspectives of gender and sexuality and I had never taken a history class on Latin America.
This class has introduced theoretical perspectives that have been really helpful in helping me better understand the concepts of sexuality and gender in different historical periods. I am interested in trans history, particularly in understanding the ways it has been erased in archives and by contemporary historians
Posts
Cuba’s Complicated Relationship with Trans Rights
Cuba claims to offer free gender affirmation surgery to its citizens and elected a trans woman to office in 2013. Lived experiences of trans people in Cuba do not confirm...
From the Colonial Past to the Present: The Third Gender in Latin American Cultures
Indigenous communities in Oaxaca have histories of gender fluidity that date back before colonialism in Mexico and have continued to support third gender identities in the present.
