Brazil ranks top in the world for consumption of trans pornography, while also being the country, for the 14th consecutive year, most lethal for trans people.
It also supports heterocisnormative women victims of gender violence or in vulnerable situations. Cordeiro gifted the land to Padilha and later donated the house where Casa Dulce Seixas currently operates. The refuge faces multiple challenges given the context of the Baixada Fluminense as a peripheral region suffering a chronic shortage of public policies and dominated by Evangelical Christianity. In addition to these challenges, lack of financial resources makes it hard to carry out access support outside the house, such as medical care, psychological support, lack of documentation, and access to social benefits for the 30 people currently living at the house.
At university, I was always invited to think about my people and my territory, deconstructing concepts⦠To look around me, at what I suffered due to ignorance and intolerance. I later came to understand that I am also a tool to transform this reality⦠Today, getting involved in political organizing and the whole benchmark that is Dulce Seixas renews my hope every day. I was called on to help transform, but I [myself] am one of the great transformations realized in this house.
Started in , the program has distributed over baskets of basic foodstuffs in eight editions, the most recent being January These food baskets were donated by collaborative networks that are not fixed, requiring new calls for donations every month. Every day, there are reports of families in need of emergency aid from Casa Dulce Seixas. A lot of people who seek out the NGO have experienced trauma caused by physical and psychological violence and arrive with only the clothes on their backs.
Casa Dulce Seixas has taken in foreigners, economic migrants, and war refugees, including Juliete Palomo, a Venezuelan citizen who immigrated to Brazil, and a refugee from the war in Ukraine who were finally able to find a home in their new country, a place where they felt supported and safe. A recent arrival at the shelter, he shares what it means for him to have a family and a home.
