With Galilea Bracho (REDMMUTRANS), Jorge Chavarría (artist), Ricardo García (UNAIDS), Carlos Motta (artist), Lic. Trinidad (Presidential Commission Against the Discrimination and Racism Against Indigenous People) and Gabriela Tuch (Sexual Diversity Defender, Attorney General's Office for Human Rights, Guatemala)
Gender Talents: Sexual and Gender Dissidence and Political Practices from REDMMUTRANS brought together Guatemalan trans activists, NGO and government agencies, and artists to discuss gender identity and sexual politics in Guatemala from the perspective of Red Multicultural de Mujeres Trans de Guatemala (REDMMUTRANS) an organization founded by trans women to support trans women of different cultural backgrounds, such as Maya, Garifuna, Xinca and mestizas, in a social, cultural and political context where they are discriminated for their gender identities and expressions, their ethnic and racial backgrounds, and because of their activities as sex workers.
With Xabier Arakistain, Esben Esther Pirelli Benestad, Giuseppe Campuzano, J. Jack Halberstam, Carlos Motta, Beatriz Preciado, Dean Spade, Terre Thaemlitz, Wu Tsang and Tamsila Taquir from Safra Project, Del LaGrace Volcano and Campbell X.
Gender Talents: A Special Address presented an international group of thinkers, activists and artists in a symposium that used the manifesto as a structure. These "special addresses" explored models and strategies that transform the ways in which society perversely defines and regulates bodies. The event asked what is at stake when collapsing, inverting or abandoning the gender binary. Here the relation between self-determination and solidarity in processes of systemic change form the foundation of a pragmatic exploration of ways of being ungoverned by normative gender.