Pride Month 2022 – Margarida Borràs

June 19, 2022

There’s the widespread narrative that transsexuality is something new and we’re all wound up around something we invented yesterday. And to that narrative we say:

fuck you.

Representation has never been so important and this is why I’m publishing this string of notes on LGBT+ characters throughout history. Because we have always existed. And we’re not going away.

Today’s profile is Margarida Borràs, a trans woman who recently became a symbol for the defence of LGBT+ rights with the Margarida Borràs Award instituted by the University of Valencia. You can read it on my Patreon for free.

architecture, engineering and construction

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