Manifesto
TransParadise is a mobilizing force for the transgender migrant community, focused on dismantling barriers and fostering a world where transgender diversity is synonymous with cultural and social enrichment.
Our core values of intersectionality highlight the complex interplay of gender, migration, race, class, and ethnicity. Artistic expression is our tool to bridge cultural divides and foster understanding. We are dedicated to inclusion and empowerment, ensuring diverse voices are heard and valued, and advocating for a society where every identity is celebrated.
Encantravar
The Brazilian travesti artist and theorist Dodi Leal, with her concept of “Encantravar” — that we can try to translate as “transenchant” — offers us a metaphorical key to unlock new possible worlds.
Encantravar is the travesti enchantment of the world. It involves embracing interruptions of domination and freezing the colonial marks of gender: cisgender and masculinity. It is no coincidence that the enchanted is an improvement of the world through the TRANS-formation of the world. To TRANS-formate is to improve: to act against the cis-patriarchal domination of the world that forges masculinity as the paradigm of nation and authority. The encantravamento is inexorably a healing process (…) as it alters the structures of scarcity of imagination and the regimentation of cis-bureaucracies that aim at self-maintenance. Travesti is excellence. Encantravar the world is to refuse the disciplinary paradigm of cisgender productivity and competitiveness and to establish transgender indisciplines as a fabular episteme.
Dodi Leal — Fabulações travestis sobre o fim, Universidade Federal do Sul da Bahia
Where to start
Social Intervention
Public policies, debates and action for trans and migrant people in Portugal.
Trans-Artvism
Art and culture as a vehicle for social advocacy. Public funding bids and consultancy for projects.
Events
Events, wins and projects from TransParadise.