Renata Carvalho

November 08, 2024

Renata Carvalho is the founder of Monart (National Movement of Trans Artists) and of the “Trans Representativity Manifesto”, which aims to include travesti/trans bodies in the spaces of art creation and calls for a break from the practice of Trans Fake/cisgender artists playing trans/travesti characters. As a transpologist (trans anthropologist), Renata has studied the travesti/trans body since 2007 when she became a volunteer prevention agent for STIs, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and hepatitis. As a prevention agent, she worked with travestis and transsexuals in prostitution–it was the same year of her travesti perception. Renata Carvalho places her travesti body as subject and object of research, debating/denouncing the absence of these bodies in art spaces.