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02 December - Lila Milić Wins the National “Meto Jovanovski” Award

With great joy and pride, the TransForma initiative wishes to express its sincere delight that Lila Milić, our co-founder, is this year’s recipient of the national “Meto Jovanovski” award. This prestigious recognition, awarded jointly to Lila and the Center for Civil Communication...

07 October - Transposium 10 in North Macedonia: A Successful Ending of the Jubilee Event

This year we hosted the jubilee Transposium, an event that unites transgender, non-binary andintersex people from all over the Balkans. The event, which was held for the first time in ourcountry, lasted three days during which participants had the opportunity to connect by means ofinteractive worksh...

18 September - TRANSGENDER WOMEN AND SEX WORK: AN INTERSECTIONAL REALITY OF DUAL STIGMATIZATION

Trans identity and sex work as a profession are an inseparable part of the “unrecognized” labor market in which people with a different identity work in a different profession, under different conditions. Despite the significant advances in visibility and the ability to speak openly about our id...

14 September - The Risto Shishkov Award Goes to DoloresLeo Popovic for Her Role in “Candy”

Dolores Leo Popović won the award for the best acting performance at the 32 nd edition of the“Risto Shishkov” Chamber Theater Festival, which ended last night in Strumica. She wasawarded for the role of Anya in the play “Candy,” based on the novel by Luke Davis, directed byT...

14 August - WHAT I HAVE LEARNED FROM MY TRANS, NON-BINARY AND FLUID FRIENDS

To write and think about transgender people, today, is impossible outside of an “us”, in which everyone is now placed. At a time when almost all the centers of power are mobilized to deny the possibility of one group to exist, the commonality of all the “outcasts” from the “guardians of no...