A Geography of Transfolks: The Vivid Face of Everyday Realities

Una geografía de las personas trans: El rostro vívido de las realidades cotidianas

Abstract

In this theoretical essay, we engage with trans studies, urban anthropology, and transfeminism to discuss the production of space challenged by cisnormativity, proposing a geography of transfolks. We draw on Brazilian and anglophone trans authors to connect geographic analysis with autoethnographic texts that evoke the right to the city, understood as a call for the right to space. These accounts highlight a spatiality marked by stigma, prejudice, and restrictions. Finally, we analyze how the resistance tactics of these political subjects have evolved, from mobilizations during the civic-military dictatorship to the strengthening of the trans movement in recent years, becoming a relevant actor and achieving progress in institutional public policies.

Keywords:
Production of space; territorial justice; trans studies; transfeminism.