San Travolín (Saint Travolín) was born from a need to search for love and tenderness. It began as a proposal for creating matches between mostris—those of us who exist outside the norm. San Travolín does not shoot their arrows at hegemonic beings, but at everything and everyone who exists beyond the margins.

San Travolín encourages connection, creating friendships and both casual and deep conversations. Also while invoking us to build community, family, and new forms of counter-hegemonic sexuality. It is also an invitation to seek self-love, where no one else gets to tell us who or how we need to be in order to love ourselves.

“Me Cuidan Mis Amigues” (My Friends Take Care of Me) is an illustration created for Argentina’s 2025 Gathering of Transgender, Transsexual, and Travo Masculinities 18+. I designed it specifically to be printed on T-shirts or patches for the closing festival.

The gathering took place over three days at a municipal campground in the province of Córdoba. We wanted to move beyond the metropolis and connect with communities in other parts of the country to better understand the issues trans people face across different territories.

We organized ourselves to cook, clean, and facilitate recreational and political workshops; to rethink our past, present, and future; to develop strategies for survival; and to build national networks. Around 150 transmasculine people of all ages from across the country participated.

The illustration represents this coming together of a community that builds friendship, family, warmth, and refuge.

It means seeking international and intersectional solidarity, where people from different cultures, religions, bodies, social classes, and ways of being in the world come together around a shared purpose: to become a political force of resistance against the far right that oppresses and kills us.

Beyond the borders they seek to impose on us, we come together in search of love and tenderness, but also our trans fury against the cis-tem. They will not defeat us. We will be millions.

I would like people to understand that transmasculine, transfeminine, and non-binary people exist and that we have the right to live with dignity, just like any other human being.

We have the right to freely express our gender, to build families, to access healthcare, education, and employment, and to occupy positions of power. The inclusion we are promised must become real, with our voices and actions represented within institutions.

People should not expect us to reproduce gender binaries through a cissexist lens. There is no single way to be trans. We can wear whatever clothes we want, have surgery or not, take hormones or not, and even change—or choose not to change—our names and identity documents. 

All of our identities are valid in their diversity.

A future where we do not have to justify our existence. A future where we have an active voice and meaningful participation in political and government decision-making, rather than being systematically excluded.

A future where we can be born travesti, grow old travesti, and not die because of it and where we do not have to live inside a closet for the comfort or happiness of others.