The ULL Education Library hosts an exhibition on trans memory in the Canary Islands

The Library of the Faculty of Education at the University of La Laguna, located in the Central Building, is hosting this week the exhibition “Yesterday and Today. Trans Memory of the Canary Islands”, a photographic exhibition promoted by the Island Directorate of Equality and Diversity of the Tenerife Island Council and premieres at this academic center during the first week of June to coincide with LGBTIQA+ Pride Month. LGBTIQ+ Diversity Cultural Classroom.

Those who visit this exhibition can pause to read the testimonies of trans people from Tenerife of different generations who have suffered discrimination and are an example of visibility in activism, such as Alexander García López, Nayara Martínez González, Andy Benítez Fernández, Terry León Peña, Samuel Pérez Benítez, Marcela Rodríguez Acosta, Rosario Miranda, Álvaro Martín Moreno, Dona Hernández Ruiz and Adam Cabrera Castellano.

The director of the LGBTIQ+ Diversity Cultural Classroom at the University of La Laguna, Sergio Siverio, She expressed her pride that the public university is embracing this institutional initiative to highlight the memory of transgender people, whose life stories are fundamental. The University of La Laguna has had regulations in place since 2020 addressing gender diversity and supporting transgender students, bringing effective equality within the academic institution ever closer.

The exhibition, which premieres at the institution and will run until June 6, will continue in the coming weeks at the Santa Cruz de Tenerife Interchange, from June 9 to 15; at the Adeje Multi-Purpose Building, from June 16 to 22; at the Cabildo's Citizen Services Building, from June 23 to 30; and at the El Tanque Town Hall until July 7, constituting a true “trans caravan” that makes their struggles visible in this LGBTIQA+ Pride month.