My name is Alessia González, I am 24 years old, I was born in Guatemala City, Guatemala in a middle class. I identify myself as a sexual dissident and mestizo-Ladino-Latina. Identifying oneself in this way entails recognizing the privileges that being read as ladino in Guatemala entails, just as being Latina means recognizing the sociocultural process that impacted my life as a daughter of an immigrant mother and living in the United States for several years as an immigrant.

I have a B.A in Anthropology and Sociology from Universidad del Valle and I am in the process of obtaining a bachelor’s degree in anthropology. My lines of action for the fulfillment of human rights are in terms of gender equity and sexual diversity, which start from the analysis of critical anthropology and decolonial feminisms and queer theories. I have worked in Flacso (Faculty of Social Sciences in Guatemala) as a research assistant in the “Program of methodology in social research”, worked on a study on violence in work spaces for lesbians, gays and trans people in the Program of Studies of Gender in Flacso, in AVANCSO (Association for the Advancement of Social Sciences in Guatemala) facilitating workshops on sexist and racist violence with teachers of primary and secondary education. Finally, I worked in an investigation on access to health in trans women and gay men with PASMO and UVG, from this last project my current thesis topic arises. Positioning myself as an academic feminist and activist since the dissidence allowed me access to carry out my fieldwork in my project on access and health barriers for trans women in Guatemala City from the perspective of health providers that provide services to trans women . Understanding access to health involves a questioning of how to conceptualize access to health rights from different points of view? It is there where anthropology plays a fundamental role. In line with activism, my first personal activism project was “Todos Somos #Carne y hueso”, a virtual movement and artistic exhibition about symbolic violence in bodies in the city, with which I expand my need to participate in different political spaces. Funde the first group of gender, equity and sexual diversity (Club GED UVG GT) in a private university in Guatemala and be part of the student movement with UVG Action, which arises from the manifestations of 2015 in the country, I was voluntary at the Woman Center and the Pride Center as an exchange student during an The Emerging Leaders in the Americas Program (ELAP) scholarships in Saskatoon, Canada. I am currently working on a collective project that links feminism and sexual dissidence with healing and dance, with which we want to create safe spaces for the bodies of the feminist movement and sexual diversity in Guatemala City.