"This book is a rallying cry against all those discourses that seek to deny transvestite identity, subsuming it in one of the two poles of the hetero binarism. Being transgender, says the author, has nothing to do with being born in a wrong body that needs to be intervened to normalize, make it thinkable, digestible for the binary stomach of a society that is as two-minded as it is hypocritical.
This book is also about the life that is presented for the first time; An experience that is related to the support of militancy in favor of the rights of transgenders as a group. It is, therefore, a cry that is both individual and collective. With a sharp tongue, clarity, and fierceness, Marlene Wayar weaves in these pages a reasoned and lucid exposition of what it means to be a Latin American transgender today: expelled even as children by the institution of the family, they will be migrants all their lives, marginalized, prostitutes. But also beings of enormous charm and beauty, intelligence, attractiveness, and seduction. Like all of them, all of them: they are what they are. And this book, for the first time, gives them the place they deserve."
Marlene Wayar serves as the general coordinator of Futuro Transgenerico, an organization that was part of the National Front for the Gender Identity Law.
She is also a co-founder of the Silvia Rivera Trans Network of Latin America and the Caribbean.
Wayar is the director of El Teje, the first travesti newspaper in Latin America, which originated from a workshop held at the Ricardo Rojas Cultural Center.
She studied Social Psychology at the Instituto Universitario de Madres de Plaza de Mayo.
Additionally, she played a key role in establishing the Nadia Echazú Textile Cooperative, named in honor of a trans rights activist.
Wayar hosted the series “Género identidad. La diversidad en el cine” (Gender Identity: Diversity in Cinema), which aired on Encuentro in 2011.
The Trans Literacy Center in Argentina decided to add “Marlene Wayar” to its name based on a poll conducted among alumni and participants.
In September 2011, Wayar received the Lola Mora Award from the Buenos Aires City Legislature for her work on the publication “El Teje”.
Marlene Wayar’s advocacy and scholarship have significantly contributed to advancing understanding, visibility, and rights for the trans community in Argentina and beyond.
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