Mutha Archives Interview with Elder Trans Man Eduardo Barbosa Explores Queer Temporality

The Museu Transgênero de História e Arte (Mutha) has published a video interview with Eduardo Barbosa, an 83-year-old trans man from Minas Gerais, Brazil. The interview, part of the Arquivo Vivo MG project, features Barbosa alongside younger trans and non-binary individuals Lui Rodrigues, Jomaka, and Ian Habib. Recorded in a care home, the free-form video presents Barbosa's non-linear, fragmented speech as a form of queer temporality and lived wisdom. The archive includes personal documents like a 1970 marriage certificate to a cisgender woman, Alcina, showing Barbosa lived as a man decades before legal recognition. Mutha, founded by Ian Habib, positions this as a living archive challenging linear historical narratives and expanding trans memory beyond trauma.