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Niteroi, Brazil – 28 September 2024
1. Transgender city councilwoman candidate Benny Briolly campaigning on the streets of a favela with a group of supporters holding flags
2. Various of Briolly talking to local residents
3. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Benny Briolly, transgender city councilwoman and candidate:
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“I’ve received more than 700 death threats. I have four investigations. I have a court decision here in Brazil and a precautionary order from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, which asks for my safety because it understands today that I am at risk.”
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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – 25 September 2024
4. Various of Siqueira during a health workers protest
5. Siqueira with a group carrying political campaign flags
6. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Indianarae Siqueira, transgender city councillor candidate:
"I think it’s important to have more women in politics and more Black people in politics, more LGBT people who learn more about politics, and especially trans people. Because this is a place where laws are formulated, and where power is taken, where everything is decided.
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Niteroi, Brazil – 28 September 2024
7. Various of Briolly placing her political campaign sticker on a gate
8. Briolly’s campaign sticker
9. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Benny Briolly, transgender city councilwoman:
“This is like Angela Davis (Black civil rights activist), talks about Black women – when a Black woman moves, the whole structure of society moves with her. When a Black trans woman moves, she will move an entire society, because she knows what pain, marginalization, hunger, exclusion, sexual violence, abandonment.”
10. Briolly walking with a group of supporters
STORYLINE:
Benny Briolly beams as she strides through the concrete favela alleyway of Brazil’s city of Niteroi in a snow-white ball gown, onlookers proudly wave campaign flags emblazoned with her face.
The city councilwoman and nearly 1,000 other transgender politicians are running Sunday in every one of Brazil’s 26 states, where the number of transgender politicians has tripled since the last elections four years ago.
In Rio de Janeiro state, two transgender candidates proudly campaign and talk to residents in an attempt to promote momentous social change that, unfortunately, is accompanied by violence in Latin America’s most populous nation.
Benny Briolly, who is running for a second city council mandate in the city of Niteroi, has received over 700 death threats but agreed that there’s an element of joy to playing an active role in politics, even amid the threats.
“When a Black trans woman moves, she moves the whole of society," says Briolly.
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights says that some have included her home address and pledged she would suffer the same fate as city councilwoman Marielle Franco, a champion for LGBTQ+ rights who was gunned down in 2018.
Indianarae Siqueira, a transgender sex worker and longtime activist who is running to be a city councillor in Rio, says that increasingly seeing trans people occupy places of power has had a snowball effect.
“This is a place where laws are formulated and where power is taken, where everything is decided,” said Siqueira during an interview on the steps leading to Rio’s municipal assembly.
Transgender Europe, a network of global non-profits, says that more trans people were murdered in Brazil last year than in any other country in the world.
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