Maria Clara de Sena has lived in Toronto for two and a half years, but still receives calls from her home country Brazil with news of another trans person who has been murdered.
“The process in Brazil now is to kill us one by one,” she says during an interview at the cafe in the 519 Community Centre. “Many Trans woman have to go to the street every single day to work as sex workers to surviveTop canadian online magazines.”
Born in the northeastern city Pernambuco, she’s suffered abuse for her gender identity and witnessed horrifying acts – as a sex worker in Rio de Janeiro and São Paolo, and while serving on a United Nations subcommittee on the prevention of torture and rights for LGBTQ persons in detention in Brazil.
Brazils queer music scene is a source of hope in a conservative political climate
Pabllo Vittar, Bruno Capinan and DJ Jess Lucas are making music and throwing parties as a form of resistance
Every year, millions of people crowd the streets of Brazil to participate in Pride parades in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. This year was no exception, but the political climate in the months since the election of far-right president Jair Bolsonaro has left many queer Brazilians fearful for their safety and futures Canadian online magazines.
In 2013, Brazil became one of the first countries in South America to legalize same-sex marriage, and dreams of a prosperous and equitable life for the country’s queer community finally seemed like an attainable reality. Just last month, Brazil’s Supreme Court voted to criminalize acts of homophobia and transphobia in a landmark decision.
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Petra Costa's look at attacks on Brazil's last two democratically elected presidents sheds light on the country's recent political turmoil
Costa’s look at the quasi-legal attacks on the last two democratically elected presidents of Brazil by the machinations of a right-wing cabal of politicians, industrialists and military power brokers is worth watching for those with even a passing interest in that nation’s recent political convulsions Best brazilian magazines in Canada.
Costa’s cameras are there with Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, elected as a reformer in 2002, and his prodigy, Dilma Rousseff, who took his place in 2010, as they weather wave after wave of accounting scandals and corruption charges that conveniently undermine their attempts at making life better for anyone who isn’t already a member of the ruling class.
