I was trying to find a title for this blog that wasn't so serious, but I didn't find anything that really contextualized in a few words the vision I have about the transvestite Luisa Marilac, I have no doubt about her importance for society.
In one interview Very relaxed and uncut even when she used expressions that are not found in dictionaries, she spoke a sentence full of very important and very coherent meanings: I was a bitch because society imposed it on me.
You don't need to be an intellectual to understand the phrase. Because she was a transvestite, many doors were closed, many opportunities never even appeared and perhaps the few chances she had became unbearable due to the physical and moral violence that society exerts on all of us.
For a transvestite, the formal job market practically does not exist. A very few warriors are able to endure and continue their career, have training and face all the barriers to joining a company. How many executive transvestites are there? Managers? Intermediate level positions? Almost none!
Studying is one of the main challenges that they face at a very young age and it is precisely because of the difficulty that they give up and end up without training and subjected to inhumane working conditions. Prostitution is the destiny of most of them.
With Marilac, life was no different, it followed an almost standard path and she even had the opportunity to go to work in Europe, earning in euros, but suffering like everyone else, who earns in whatever currency it is. But Luisa is not ashamed of her past, she hits her chest to say that she once became a prostitute. Not being ashamed of the past is a quality that many do not have.
But her importance to society is not just in being one more, but the person who brought transvestility to the media in a happy and positive way, with the air of someone who is happy with herself and respects others, different from how many treated her. .
She may not have an academic background, but she is politicized. In every interview she gives she always talks about the violence that homosexuals suffer, she asks for respect and rights. Luisa took transvestites out of the dark alleys that the mainstream press places them in and into a prominent position.
Every time homosexuality and its aspects leave the ghetto and gain prominence in vehicles that talk to other audiences, it is activism that is being carried out, even if the main objective is not. The subject is brought up for discussion in groups that don't usually look at the sides.
Marilac achieved much more than the fleeting fame that the internet provides, much more than the first million hits on YouTube, much more than a work schedule in nightclubs, she brought to light an issue that the vast majority want to erase.
