Furia Marica is a collective supported by Fondo Lunaria as a part of their Peace Building programme. They are located in the south-west of the country and work from a trans-feminist, dissident and territorial perspective. In a context marked by armed violence, structural racism and fundamentalism, they build peace by articulating networks of care and resistance, overflowing the cracks of the hegemonic norm and reclaiming the value of trans lives.
This photo reportage is a sample of moments that narrate trans memories, their commitments to the right to identity, to dignified living and to the embodiment of bodies through enjoyment, struggle and tenderness. It is evidence of resistance through the connection with the territory they inhabit and transform.
Habitarnos Trans: struggle, strength and resistance.
Hermitage of Popayán, the city’s first church.
In memory of the transmasculine lives that have built a legacy with their voices and struggles.
In honour of Daniel Montaño.
Fibres of transits mapped in resistance, healing the colonial cracks.
Clock tower in Caldas Park, Popayán. The mapping was an exercise in cartography and historicization that recovers life trajectories and significant places for trans masculinities and non-binary people (AFAN) in the city, reclaiming their memories and presence in a territory marked by colonial legacy..
Inhabiting the city: memories and recollections.
Humilladero Bridge, Popayán. The rainbows correspond to the trans and non-binary flags, respectively.
Bodies that choose to flourish on their own terms.
Stacked boxes of testosterone.
Building memory: narrating the trans struggles that transform life for peace
Mural by Furia Marica at the University of Cauca, Faculty of Human and Social Sciences.
Collective care as a part of memory
A collage created during Parche Trans, a space organised by Furia Marica as a creative sharing between trans and non-binary people (AFAN). The phrase “to see what few have seen, you have to go where few have gone” frames the intention of this photo report.
Loving with your own body, with your chosen name, with your whole gaze.
Pueblito Patojo, Popayán, Cauca.