Julia Bueno’s “Nas esquinas do cuidado: Brenda Lee e a redução de danos” is a book that refuses to remain neatly within the boundaries of academic analysis, biography or political manifesto. It is all of these at once and something more. It is a work that listens deeply to the voices of trans women and travestis who have lived and shaped the practices of harm reduction in Brazil long before the term became a formal public policy. It is an exploration of how care emerges not as an abstract ideal but as a daily struggle, an inventive survival strategy and a place where memory, rage, tenderness and political consciousness collide. The book widens the contemporary debate on health and human rights by focusing on the lives of those who are most often neglected in both fields and by insisting that any meaningful discussion about care must take into account the structural conditions that make certain bodies more vulnerable, more visible and more exposed to violence.
