Body: Its Autobiography (2020)
• September 11th, 2020 • 0h 41min
Documentary
Overview
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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