Country of allies?
‘Coming out is a constant thing’
Telling my friends in our rural community, Monteverde, was fairly easy. Coming out is a constant thing, though.
What’s in a name?
To a mother, at one point, it’s everything. She ponders, wonders, smiles at her own audacity. She says the names of...
Building safe spaces for Costa Rica’s LGTBIQ+ community
Esteban Alfaro decided to make a change in his canton, Perez Zeledón, after he and his boyfriend were thrown out of a bar in...
From repression to the celebration of desire: Mateo’s story
Where does desire come from?
I don't know. It's probably shaped by various factors. What I do know is that all people experience desire, but...
Inclusion 2.0: workshops ask Costa Rican businesses to open new doors
“The little girl never grows up.”
The psychologist José Luis García has just posed a question: in the 2001 Russell Crowe movie “A Beautiful Mind,”...
Cisnormativity is a circle, and I am a star
I was so happy that day. I arrived at the salon with a very clear idea in mind. I wanted to see myself look...
‘Finally, we can sleep at night’
“Ya vamos a poder dormir.” Now we’ll be able to sleep at night. Now. Ya. Finally.
Ya, a word so expressive, so eloquent. It can...
Grassroots work for an inclusive public sector
An office where fingerprints are processed. A training for the administrators of public ports. The meeting room of a municipal government.
Sometimes, the work to...
Coming out in Talamanca: the basket and the seed
The seed? That’s me.
The most unnatural thing is to fear the natural.
But what is natural? Are not all seeds natural?
I am one of those...
Bourbon. Bitters. Sugar. Water. A graceful unwinding of orange peel. Why call it an Old Fashioned when you could call it a Media Naranja,...
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‘I felt that I had no right to be alive’
Sofia* is 27 years old. Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) was transmitted to her when she was born, in Nicaragua. However, she says that her...
