Kyara Barbosa
Age 234 Dec 2017
Morada Nova, Ceará (Brazil)
Suicide
Kyara died by suicide. According to friends she suffered from severe depression.
She was politically active and a skilled writer who had written messages about the difficult lives of Brazilian transgender people:
ON THE CHANGES AND IDENTITIES By Kyara Barbosa
According to medicine and society I was born a boy, but I never identified myself as such. By the age of 11 I was already affectionately related to boys, I did not feel in a homo relationship. At age 14 Kyara was born, of everything that existed inside the box, being woman was the one that approached me more. Even though I felt fulfilled by assuming a feminine identity and living in my reality this condition, I always felt that something was missing.
Now, at the age of 23 — nine years after starting my transition — I feel like I’m still at the beginning of everything; today I do not identify myself as a woman, and very much as a man. What I feel and I know is that my identity as a human being is not limited to gender binarism, but rather the possibilities. It remains a trans woman that for political reasons is claimed transvestite, more fundamentally, these issues of gender is a mere social illusion. I can be free without having a gender, in fact, if I want one.
I am a human being who thinks, who breathes and feels and that is enough for me.
My voice is too thick to be feminine, and damn, I love my voice. Just like my voice, my measurements do not fit within a standard and that’s what I think is beautiful: it’s not fit into standards. I feel like an unlimited human being, that I can have as many identities as I want, as many sexualities as I can, and none of this interferes directly with what I am. There are things I do not understand and do not want to understand, but only taste the freedom that has already been arrested.
Her Facebook profile is https://www.facebook.com/kyarasbarbosa.02
https://homofobiamata.wordpress.com/2017/12/04/kyara-barbosa-23-anos-suicidio-ce-morada-nova/
http://www.nlucon.com/2017/12/militante-kyara-barbosa-da-adeus-aos-23.html
https://www.facebook.com/dantasdantasvieira/posts/1618342521564122
