Temporada de Luta: Resistência e Organização Travesti em Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul (2001 - 2023)

Abstract

Through the methodology of Oral History, this dissertation analyzes the creation, consolidation, development, and accomplishments of the Associação de Travestis e Transexuais do Mato Grosso do Sul (ATMS). Over a period of more than twenty years of history (2001 - 2023), these activists have been resisting a wide range of violent categories that have been associated with them, especially by the State in the process of conquering rights, space, and visibility. Using its members testimonies, which express sensitive and subjective memories and experiences, the association’s private collection, and research about transsexuals' history and their organized movement in Brazil, this academic contribution offers new points of view about the history of the country and its social movements, both politically and in cotidian experiences.