SOCIOL 3GG3 Chapter 1: 2 - INTRO
7 May 2019
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Transgender prostitute or travesty: banana, novella soap opera, huge gesture of hospitality from a travesty to a guest, preparations are insane mostly to the hair. Travesties live in horrible conditions: there are a lot of them in salvador brazils third highest city. They adopt femal names, clothing, hair, cosmetics, and linguistic pronouns: also have a fuck tone of hormones, pay other travesties for boob and ass jobs, many don"t self id as female. Appear throughout latin america but mainly in brazil: highly visible in social and cultural space, annual carnival they are the mascot, embodiments of the carnival spirt. Roberta close: most beautiful woman in brazil was a travesti: appeared on national tv, was a household name, playboy, 3 songs written about her. Many scholars and government officials have commented on this phenomenon: everything seems like something that it isn"t, everything is relative ideas but not truth about travesties. Still, most impoverished, marginalized, feared, and despised groups in brazil.
