“Cannon Fodder is a stubborn book, as stubborn as the struggle waged by the Trans Memory Archive and as stubborn as those who, even in contexts of grave regression, tell their stories here. Without this tenacity that seeks to bring out of invisibility the many forms of violence that cisheteropatriarchy inflicted, and continues to inflict, on trans and travesti people, this world would be much worse. The daily work of the Archive, indispensable in such adverse contexts and reflected in this book, serves to record not only the horrors, but also the struggles and the resistance. Because, as the disappeared poet Paco Urondo said, ‘memory will burn until everything is as we dreamed it would be,’ and, as Taty Almeida, a Mother of Plaza de Mayo, added, ‘it will also burn until everything is as we fought for it.’”