The daily life of Canela Grandi, a trans woman nearly 60 years old. Canela…
Present Tense, Ep. 02 - Alive and Strong
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Present Tense addresses contemporary Brazilian themes from the experience of two characters and the analysis of a researcher expert in the subject.
Throughout the season, the series addresses topics such as the impact of pesticide use, violence against the LGBTQIA+ population, violence against women, structural racism, precarious work, fake news, the importance of Public Healthcare, and demarcation of indigenous lands, among others.
Citation
Main credits
Mac Niven, Rodrigo (film director)
Rios Corrêa, Clarice (screenwriter)
Oliveira, Juliana (film producer)
Other credits
Cinematography, Rodrigo Mac Niven; editing, Gabriel Medeiros, Felipe Bibian, Renato Martins.
Distributor subjects
Sociology; South America; Latin American Studies; Race + Ethnicity; Afro-LatinKeywords
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I had never thought anything about sexuality,
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I never questioned that in my life
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I have never studied with a transvestite.
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All the records I have from childhood
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it was the transvestite on the
street, in prostitution.
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I began to understand that heterosexuality
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was not the only option in the world
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and I began to understand that the error
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it was not my existence.
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Daily you have to take doses
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of encouragement to stay alive,
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and not just living, breathing.
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Live and producing life.
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Every 48 hours, a transgender person
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or transvestite is murdered in the country.
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The data is on the murder map
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of the trans population in Brazil, in 2017,
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of the National Association of
Transvestites and Transsexuals.
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How would you tie it, Rafa?
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This here
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I was born in Manaus, in the Amazon,
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and I am the daughter of a
missionary couple of pastors
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of the Assembly of God.
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I always had a feeling that I had a
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greater inclination to what would be feminine
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of what was proposed to me as masculine.
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Now there\'s Ana Giza, Terra, Onica, Areta.
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One, two, three, four, five, six, seven,
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eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve.
It\'s over.
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It\'s over, honey.
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I actually didn\'t even want to be gay,
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nor be a transvestite,
because, inside my head,
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none of these moral conducts would be,
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I don\'t know, healthy for my body,
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or healthy for me.
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When I reached adolescence,
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the repression of non-acceptance
was much greater
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and then I take it to my parents.
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Their first reaction was an expulsion,
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to say: \"Since that choice is yours,
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I want you to leave the house.\"
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I only had reference really that I had
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the freedom to be able to live this story
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when I left the Amazonas State
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and I ended up coming to the Southeast.
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My parents already dreamed
of having a daughter,
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and her name was Leticia.
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They always said that one
day Letícia would come.
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When I transitioned,
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I quickly became Manauara.
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\"Who is she?\", \"She is from
Manaus, Manauara\", and so on.
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But, on the record, I didn\'t
want to put Manauara Clandestine,
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because I knew I had a name,
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because my grandmother is
Maria, my mother is Maria,
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my aunts are Maria... I said:
\"No, my name is Maria Letícia\".
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My father found out.
It was not an easy process,
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my father was very exalted.
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He had a constant surveillance
of everything I did.
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So, at school, in the technical
course I was doing at the time
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I was a free person, who lived my experiences,
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I was a totally open, smiling person.
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And at home, I was totally submissive.
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I listened to what my father
had to say, I respected,
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I lowered my head and complied.
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In this fulfillment of my father\'s demands,
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I ended up going to a psychologist,
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who tried to do a \"gay healing\" process.
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And it was kind of a strange process,
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consultations with a psychologist
who was also a pastor
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and that had this very clear attempt
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of trying to make me understand,
through metaphors,
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that the process of facing
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my homosexual impulse
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it was very painful,
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but it was something i should do
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for a divine purpose.
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That\'s when I started to think:
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\"I have to leave home to live,
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to experience my life, to live,
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to constitute myself as a human being\",
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and the opportunity arose to
come to Rio de Janeiro.
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My search is focused
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with both racial discrimination and LGBT.
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LGBT rights have been completely forgotten
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of the political system,
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so, most of the LGBT rights
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were conquered by the judiciary.
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Major achievements of LGBT rights
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that happened in Brazil, until today, were,
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in general, a gradual conquest and
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last sphere of rights promotion was related
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to the criminalization of LGBT-phobia,
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as recognition of discrimination
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against the LGBT population.
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Criminalization is important, but it is not enough.
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We punish racism by laws since \'89,
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and that\'s not why we have less racism.
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If you are a black transvestite,
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every day you will go through a
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test situation, of survival.
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And now if you are in a
state of vulnerability
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and looking for a job,
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It\'s a much more complicated situation,
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in a city that creates
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a place, a structure in
which it imposes itself
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as if you don\'t belong to that space,
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like you don\'t deserve to
be there, right?
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And getting here, the
process was very difficult
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because I started to
understand that there were
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other violences that, until then,
I had not experienced.
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I had never been passed over for
a job for being a lesbian.
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I had a resume, a good resume,
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competitive for the administrative area,
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I had a lot of experience,
despite being new.
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People didn\'t want me in direct service,
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for passing an aggressive image.
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That\'s when I started working
as a gas station attendant.
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So the absence of opportunity
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in the formal market made me understand
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that I would need my own space.
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This led me to create my publishing house
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of books and audiovisual producer,
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which is what I have and
sustains me financially today.
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I work with topics that I find very pertinent
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for today\'s society.
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I work with animal ethics,
environmental, feminism,
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gender studies
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and it\'s pretty cool
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to be able to do this and see
this in a book like this.
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It\'s pretty cool.
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The acronym itself has changed over time,
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the acronym LGBTI+,
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precisely to encompass these different groups
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that have been made invisible
in the LGBT community itself.
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With regard to transpeople, for example,
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there\'s a whole discussion
about gender identity,
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on access to health care.
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It is the most abused group,
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more discriminated against in society.
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We are working, once again,
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at the House of Creators,
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and this time the project is called
\"Brazil, world champion country
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of transvestites\".
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And it will be a very fine mockery.
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We will produce an editorial
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with a team of transvestites, on the 18th,
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and I really wanted you on this team.
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I actually came with the dream
of studying Fashion.
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I was working as a waitress for a while
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and then I received an invitation
from a stylist, at the time,
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and at some point I said:
\"Man, I\'m going to study
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fashion production, because
that\'s what I need\".
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It will be transvestites and black cis women.
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And to close, there will be the last block,
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which will be \"Brasileirinhxs\".
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It\'s going to be like a team of trans people.
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We\'ll, like, rescue the green and yellow
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and will mock patriotism.
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Oh, I want to see, dear!
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I think the moment that I could have the opportunity
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of really living my transition,
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or, in fact, let the transition live me,
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that\'s when I had a ground of trust.
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It was after I came here,
I had been here for a while,
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and I ended up bonding with some people
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that put me in the safest place.
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No, friend.
Stay there.
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I met Vicenta also in this process
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and I ended up working as a model for her.
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And it was really crazy, because we met
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and formed a family.
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A lot more trans people were joining
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who were also looking
for the same thing as me,
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to have a safe space
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to be who they are.
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Do you lock here?
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The delegate Euripedes da Silva Stuque
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of the 3rd Police District of Ribeirao
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asked the court for the temporary
arrest of the three police officers
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suspects in the death
of Luana Barbosa dos Reis
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of 34 years.
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I had a snap in a moment of life,
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with the death of Luana Barbosa.
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She was a lesbian murdered in Ribeirao Preto,
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countryside of Sao Paulo,
by police officers.
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And Luana\'s death impacted me a lot,
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simply made this questioning,
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\"Who are the other Luanas who are dying
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victims of lesbophobia?\".
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So the research project
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\"Lesbocides: The Stories Nobody Tells\"
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is the result of this attempt
to understand these deaths,
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those deaths that were not reported
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and that the lesbian movement
was not fully aware.
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And then we publish the dossier,
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the dossier takes a place
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that we did not even imagine,
in fact, at the beginning,
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but it is this place to open a space,
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a path to lesbian research,
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a scientific backing,
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because from the moment you prove
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that people die for being lesbians,
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it becomes, politically, academically
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and daily, a fact,
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a fact that can no longer be denied.
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Understanding lesbian deaths
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is to have contact with very violent content.
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These are the cases that
I have already registered
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These are cases that are still under investigation,
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but...
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A constant search, right?
Verification
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of the truth of the facts,
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of the veracity of death.
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Today I follow 379 cases.
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It\'s...
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There are many cases to follow.
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It\'s hard to find a lesbian
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that has not suffered
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a psychological violence
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and/or physical in their entire life.
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I\'d say it\'s impossible.
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It is very common in non-feminized lesbians
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to be attacked \"like a man\",
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because her appearance is \"manly\".
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Lesbians fall into this condition
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of hate crimes for various reasons.
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The most present,
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the easiest to identify
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are the methodologies of crimes,
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that is, the way in which crimes are committed
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and the context in which it is committed.
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And then it works as a warning
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for those who didn\'t die
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and like an outpouring of that hate
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against a certain element of a population,
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but which represents a hatred
against that whole category.
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We find quarters,
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rapes, gang rapes,
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every rape against lesbians, we consider
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a corrective rape,
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torture.
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What\'s in the court case,
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we only have one version.
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we only have one version.
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The version of who stayed alive.
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The version of those who said
it wasn\'t homophobia,
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the speaker\'s version:
\"Oh, I killed because she stole
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my bag of bread\".
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Or: \"I killed her because
she moved my antenna.\"
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I don\'t care how many deaths there were.
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For me, it is interesting to understand why he killed,
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how he killed,
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what was this cycle of violence.
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These cases that are extremely violent,
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it\'s not just the death of a person,
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but it is also trying to impose on that person
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a process of dehumanization.
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-Hey guys.
-Hey.
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The one who greets only transvestites!
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Assemble the machines, sweetheart.
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We are going to continue our exercises today, right?
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Today the idea is for you to go there,
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take the clothes,
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cut, make something from beginning to end,
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without my intervention.
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-But with mine!
-Yes
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Yeah, some people will intervene,
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now try to create something
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that goes beyond what you have already learned.
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This is another class of our course
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of art, culture and sewing.
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A course that was conceived
through the TRANSmoras studio.
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So I\'m here solving a piece
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that one of our students did, Ianca.
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It was incredible, which is
precisely the project itself,
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which is to reuse materials that
would otherwise be discarded, right?
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And that become catwalk pieces
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and pieces that you can use
on a daily basis as well.
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You can even take those seams
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so as not to get in the way
when passing the machine.
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- This side is wider.
-Hm!
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To come up here.
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Do it like this, right?
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Yes.
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-Leave a collar.
-Yes.
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We can cut it like a shirt sleeve.
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Do you like this proposal?
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Do you think it matches the play?
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We can look for another piece
to come from that other side.
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The public space, in addition to the studio,
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began to become a welcoming space,
00:18:15.194 --> 00:18:17.796
because I believe that gender is individual
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and collective at the same time.
00:18:20.466 --> 00:18:24.136
So, it is very important that each one speaks,
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each show their power
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to build dialogue,
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what are we going to pass on to people,
00:18:30.409 --> 00:18:31.977
in relation to us,
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and in relation to the
clothes we are wearing,
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in relation to the art that we are producing,
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in relation to everything that
involves our experience.
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Yeah, it has nothing to do with this sleeve.
00:18:46.125 --> 00:18:49.094
But we can make a sleeve, normal, like this.
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This sleeve will be everything,
it\'s a Caribbean thing.
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And this one can go the other way.
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Then we do that thing of creating a button...
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-To be able to close.
-...to close.
00:18:58.904 --> 00:19:00.873
-Yes, it\'s going to be cool.
- Got it?
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And we create a button on one side,
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-and another.
-Are you coming next week?
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-I come on Tuesday.
-On Tuesday?
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Uh-huh, then we can develop.
00:19:08.614 --> 00:19:11.016
- Then we do it together.
-Well done!
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They are bodies that have a life expectancy
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of 35 years.
00:19:18.490 --> 00:19:21.693
So, there is never a future perspective.
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Four men attacked me in the street,
00:19:24.363 --> 00:19:25.330
at night.
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I tried to file a complaint,
00:19:31.270 --> 00:19:34.940
and I was super demoralized
inside the police station.
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I couldn\'t even do the B.O.,
00:19:37.643 --> 00:19:40.445
because the guy who attends me
at a civil police station
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Said I didn\'t have enough bruises
00:19:44.383 --> 00:19:46.552
to do a forensic examination,
00:19:46.885 --> 00:19:50.989
and that the forensic examination
demanded money from the state,
00:19:50.989 --> 00:19:53.859
and that the state wasn\'t here to pay for it.
00:20:03.835 --> 00:20:06.205
We will not erase the violence, the vulnerability
00:20:06.205 --> 00:20:08.106
where our bodies meet,
00:20:08.106 --> 00:20:11.143
but we are going to change this path.
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Only three states reported that they had
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specialized police stations to handle cases
00:20:27.025 --> 00:20:28.393
of LGBT-phobia.
00:20:28.393 --> 00:20:30.729
Which actually shows that
there is an insufficiency
00:20:30.729 --> 00:20:33.565
of the Judiciary System in
dealing with these crimes.
00:20:33.932 --> 00:20:36.401
Another very important advance that
the Federal Supreme Court gave
00:20:36.401 --> 00:20:39.705
in relation to criminalization
is to recognize that death,
00:20:39.705 --> 00:20:43.609
the murder of LGBT people,
because they are LGBT,
00:20:43.609 --> 00:20:46.612
has to be investigated as
a \"silly reason\" murder,
00:20:46.612 --> 00:20:49.014
which is a more seriously
punished aggravated homicide.
00:20:49.014 --> 00:20:51.049
This recognition is important even
00:20:51.049 --> 00:20:54.486
for us to have better data
on attempted murders,
00:20:54.486 --> 00:20:57.556
on cases of homicides in Brazil
with the LGBT population,
00:20:57.556 --> 00:20:59.391
so that we can effectively formulate
00:20:59.391 --> 00:21:00.792
public policies on the subject,
00:21:00.792 --> 00:21:02.461
think where these deaths happen
00:21:02.461 --> 00:21:03.862
and why and by whom.
00:21:08.433 --> 00:21:10.669
we have as a record
00:21:10.836 --> 00:21:13.705
the country that kills the most
transvestites in the world
00:21:13.939 --> 00:21:17.743
and the country that most consumes
trans pornography in the world.
00:21:17.743 --> 00:21:20.445
I never heard a black
transvestite girl talking
00:21:20.445 --> 00:21:23.382
that she is a prostitute
because she likes it.
00:21:23.582 --> 00:21:27.319
If you cater to fetishes
00:21:27.586 --> 00:21:29.888
of what the white society wants,
00:21:29.888 --> 00:21:32.958
but still it is
00:21:32.958 --> 00:21:35.060
a very violent scene.
00:21:35.961 --> 00:21:36.928
\'Cause you\'re at the
00:21:36.928 --> 00:21:39.931
mercy of what man wants,
00:21:40.499 --> 00:21:44.670
and that man might not
even want you alive.
00:21:46.371 --> 00:21:48.273
I think in this process
00:21:48.273 --> 00:21:51.009
what happened was that we realized
00:21:51.576 --> 00:21:54.713
that if we didn\'t have
affection for each other,
00:21:54.713 --> 00:21:56.748
the girls were getting lost.
00:21:56.748 --> 00:21:58.450
Getting lost a lot.
00:21:58.450 --> 00:22:00.852
Losing their own lives, even.
00:22:01.086 --> 00:22:04.690
I think this process of creating a place of safety
00:22:04.856 --> 00:22:07.826
also comes from this encouragement,
00:22:08.060 --> 00:22:10.262
to look for more dignity of life.
00:22:26.011 --> 00:22:27.713
We are getting ready to go
00:22:27.713 --> 00:22:31.583
to our first LGBTI Parade in Rio.
00:22:32.184 --> 00:22:35.554
We go with people who live here at home and such.
00:22:35.620 --> 00:22:39.024
So we\'re excited, we\'re getting ready to go
00:22:39.024 --> 00:22:40.359
for a long time.
00:22:41.827 --> 00:22:45.430
We\'re getting organized, I made
clothes, it\'s super cool.
00:23:02.414 --> 00:23:04.983
For a long time, I didn\'t understand the meaning
00:23:04.983 --> 00:23:06.017
of the LGBTI Parade.
00:23:06.017 --> 00:23:09.254
I didn\'t understand the functionality of that,
00:23:09.254 --> 00:23:11.757
but today I understand it as a necessity
00:23:11.757 --> 00:23:13.458
of celebration of our existence.
00:23:13.458 --> 00:23:15.293
I think you need to have some time
00:23:15.293 --> 00:23:17.028
of our reality, or of our day to day,
00:23:17.462 --> 00:23:21.299
that we stop and think:
\"Wow, we\'re alive.\"
00:23:21.299 --> 00:23:22.467
It\'s that moment.
00:23:22.467 --> 00:23:25.137
It\'s that moment where you see equal people,
00:23:25.771 --> 00:23:28.607
where you feel most secure.
00:23:29.508 --> 00:23:31.810
Our existence is already a political act.
00:23:31.810 --> 00:23:34.012
It is a very remarkable political act.
00:23:39.418 --> 00:23:41.386
Marielle was a lesbian woman,
00:23:41.386 --> 00:23:42.921
openly lesbian,
00:23:42.921 --> 00:23:47.426
in a position of power that bothered them for that.
00:23:47.426 --> 00:23:51.930
And, after her, we have a lesbian mayor in Brazil,
00:23:52.531 --> 00:23:54.800
we have a lesbian councilwoman in Florianopolis.
00:23:55.133 --> 00:23:59.137
Movements emerging from popular organization.
00:23:59.604 --> 00:24:01.606
We have magazines coming up.
00:24:01.673 --> 00:24:04.576
We have a lesbian band,
we have...
00:24:05.410 --> 00:24:08.747
a flourishing cultural space.
00:24:09.047 --> 00:24:10.549
I think this is a great achievement,
00:24:10.549 --> 00:24:12.951
beyond institutional achievements.
00:24:16.054 --> 00:24:18.056
LGBT people fight to have rights
00:24:18.056 --> 00:24:19.558
like everyone else.
00:24:19.558 --> 00:24:22.060
The right not to be killed in the street,
00:24:22.060 --> 00:24:23.829
right not to be hated by politicians,
00:24:23.829 --> 00:24:27.999
right to have access to health,
to have their union recognized,
00:24:27.999 --> 00:24:31.236
their recognized marriage,
right to adoption.
00:24:31.236 --> 00:24:32.871
All rights are simply
00:24:32.871 --> 00:24:35.106
rights that all other people also have
00:24:35.106 --> 00:24:37.776
and LGBT people want to be
entitled to have rights.
00:24:50.856 --> 00:24:52.858
the relationship that
00:24:53.358 --> 00:24:54.759
I carry and
00:24:55.827 --> 00:24:57.462
I built with the city
00:24:58.396 --> 00:25:03.301
it is a relationship of
repaying violence with life.
00:25:03.568 --> 00:25:06.738
And occupy these places and
institutions with life
00:25:06.738 --> 00:25:09.040
that would normally be cisgender places.
00:25:17.082 --> 00:25:18.950
I still don\'t feel that I exist fully,
00:25:18.950 --> 00:25:21.086
because I still don\'t live
in a society that allows me
00:25:21.086 --> 00:25:22.721
to exist fully,
00:25:23.722 --> 00:25:26.424
but I feel that I am
building this society.
00:25:26.858 --> 00:25:29.427
And I think this is already
a very significant step
00:25:29.427 --> 00:25:31.930
for my fulfillment as an individual
00:25:31.930 --> 00:25:33.331
and as a collective.
00:25:33.331 --> 00:25:35.634
As a lesbian woman.
00:25:41.406 --> 00:25:47.212
At least 129 transexual people were murdered for
trans-phobia in 2019. 82% of the victims were black.
00:25:47.212 --> 00:25:59.090
Sao Paulo was the state with the
highest number of homicides.
00:26:00.592 --> 00:26:09.267
From 2014 to 2017, there was an increase of more
than 237% in the number of lesbian murders in Brazil.
Distributor: Pragda Films
Length: 26 minutes
Date: 2020
Genre: Expository
Language: Portuguese
Grade: High School, College, Adults
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