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There are myriad ways of being transgender – and experiences across the world are equally varied. Illustrations by Jason Barker.

Visibility offers no protection for trans people in Brazil. Amanda Palha analyses the roots of violence and exclusion faced by her community – and its fight to stay alive.

This New Internationalist fact spread looks the number of trans people around the world, the violence and discrimination they face, health, education, work, legal protections and vulnerabilities.

Marti Abernathey picks a way through the panic, confusion and maltreatment that surrounds transgender children.

Small things, as suggested by CN Lester. But if every cis – or ‘not trans’ – person followed them, we’d be living in a kinder world.

It’s in the air – and calling for a mindset reset. Vanessa Baird tracks the course of transgender rights and their liberating potential for us all.

Now and at the Hour of our Death by Susana Moreira Marques; Kill Chain by Andrew Cockburn; The Body Snatcher by Patrícia Melo; and The Seven Good Years by Etgar Keret.

Resistance, by Souljazz Orchestra; and Amores Pasados, by John Potter and Others.

Theeb, directed by Naji Abu Nowar; and 45 Years, directed by Andrew Haigh.

Comedian, activist and author Mark Thomas talks dissent, tax and people power.

Rajendra Singh is reviving Indian villages through traditional rainwater harvesting.

No development process succeeds without the participation of those it targets, argues Maggie Black.

Behind his fig leaf of respectability, Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández hides some dirty secrets.

Mali was once renowned amongst African nations for its calm, its culture and its welcome.

Cartoon by Marc Roberts.