
Body: Its Autobiography
2020-09-11 · 41 min · Not rated
A documentary that shows a body in social and family isolation, but the distance is not caused by the coronavirus, but by being a transvestite. Renata Carvalho is a character of herself, her voice tells us the historicity/transcestrality of her body and the structural transphobia.
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- Renata Carvalho, Cibele Appes
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- Corpo Rastreado, Fuzuê Filmes
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