West Kowloon Cultural District The Box, Freespace WestK｜WestK Solo Fest: Renata Carvalho – Manifesto Transpofágico

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A powerful solo performance about the lived transgender experience

“When we are on a stage, we are confronted with all these prejudices against our bodies, which are still not seen as human bodies, as something natural – it is a body that causes discomfort and that is why it is so difficult for us.” — Renata Carvalho

In Manifesto Transpofágico, Renata Carvalho lays bare the historical exclusion and dehumanisation of the transgender body and invites us to view her corporality as a form of experience.

Through stories that are personal, political, informative and at times heart-wrenching, she shares her position as a transwoman – dissecting the representation of trans people in Brazil (travesti) and challenging the audience with crucial questions about the social construction of gender.

As she dismantles the violence of the pathological image attributed to the transgender community – in a country with the highest percentage of murders of transpeople in the world – she exposes the hypersexualisation, structural transphobia and criminalisation that confronts those regarded as failing to conform to the gender they were assigned at birth.

Manifesto Transpofágico is staged in two parts without intermission. The first part involves a scripted, 60-minute multimedia performance, the second a 30-minute interactive audience discussion.

Performance : Brazilian Portuguese with Chinese and English surtitles

Discussion : Brazilian Portuguese and English

*Post-performance talk on 17 January 2026 (Saturday)