Belén, María Belén

Belén, María Belén is a photobook that, through archival photographs, documents and autobiographical texts, narrates the life of María Belén Correa, a leading activist for transgender rights in Argentina and Latin America. Her personal story reflects the history of the LGBTQIA+ community in Latin America and the struggles it faced in the 1980s and 1990s.

Her journey is one of collective struggle for the recognition of trans identities and expressions. Throughout her life, she founded organizations and community groups, achieving laws, improving the quality of life, and creating support networks against the transphobic contexts that persist to this day.

In 2012, María Belén founded the Trans Memory Archive to collect and preserve the life stories of the Argentine trans community, becoming a key reference and collective memory of trans identities.