Gustavo Hernández-Calderón, Belén Correa, Matilda González
Session summary
This presentation seeks to show two different exercises of historical reparation and peacebuilding with LGBTQIA victims of an armed conflict, in the case of Colombia; and of a military dictatorship, in the case of Argentina. The presentation will invite to reflect on the possible mechanisms of constitutional protection, but also on the social fabric that peace processes create when sexual and gender minorities are involved in a dialogue process. We will count with the intervention of Beln Correa and Matilda Gonzlez, who will tell their experience as trans activists in the processes of historical reparation in their respective countries.
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Biography
Gustavo Hernandez-Calderón (he/him) is a Colombian-German researcher specialising in sexual and gender minorities in the global south. He is currently completing his MA in Global Studies at the Humboldt University of Berlin (Germany), where he is conducting research on LGBTQIA-+ Social Capital in Colombia after the peace agreements in 2016. His search includes the analysis of the vulnerability of the LGBTIQA+ population in Argentina, Colombia, Thailand, Cyprus and Nigeria. Gustavo is especially interested in future research on non-binary gender constructions prior to European colonisation and their process of resistance up to the present day.
Matilda Gonzalez Gil (she/her) is a lawyer from Universidad de los Andes, with a Master's degree in International Law from the American University in Washington. She was the first trans woman to lead the Secretariat of Women and Gender Affairs in Manizales, Colombia. She worked as a lawyer at Colombia Diversa. In addition, at the Colombian Institute of Family Welfare, she was a technical referent of the differential approach in the Directorate of Children and Adolescents.
Belén Correa (she/her) is an Argentinean trans activist. She was born in 1973. In her twenties she founded the Argentinean Transvestites Association together with Claudia a Baudracco. She presided over it until 2001. Today it bears the name Asociación Travestis Transexuales Transgéneros Argentinas (ATTTA). In her exile in New York she founded the Latin American and Caribbean Network of Trans People in 2003. In 2012 she created the Trans Memory Archive that gathers photos, letters, documents and testimonies of generations of Argentine transvestites and transgender people.
