The 72 As Intercultural Trans Emancipation And Resistance Space In The Southern Border Of Mexico

Abstract

Paola is a young Honduran trans from San Pedro Sula forced into exile to Mexico because her life is in danger. Despite the existence of a large body of international law that protects her, in the migratory journey she is encountering current laws and discriminatory practices that deny her rights as a refugee. 

Located in the southern Mexican border, the migrant’s shelter called “72 house” is facing a humanitarian emergency, one that they manage through a process of critical interculturality. The 72 becomes a place of freedom for Paola, where she develops greater emancipation in her sex-gender dissidence, and resistance to capitalist global governance. This article provides a current overview of the relationship between trans identities and expressions of gender and migration processes on the southern border of Mexico.