{"id":1820174,"date":"2026-03-11T12:09:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T09:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1820174"},"modified":"2026-03-11T12:09:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T09:09:00","slug":"photos-from-the-floor-of-rios-transmasc-ballroom-scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1820174","title":{"rendered":"Photos from the floor of Rio\u2019s transmasc ballroom scene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/1200\/0-795-2000-1333\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/1\/1441154.jpg&#8221;]<\/p>\n<article class=\"main-article standard \">\n<div class=\"article-main-content article-wrapper has-media-but-its-an-image\" data-status=\"loaded\" data-primary-article=\"true\" data-url=\"\/beauty\/article\/69869\/1\/photos-floor-rio-brazil-transmasc-ballroom-scene-roma-joana\" data-article-id=\"69869\">\n<header class=\"article-header has-portrait-image no-media\">\n<div class=\"wrapper dg-max-width\">\n<div class=\"inner\">\n<figure class=\"main-img has-figcaption\" data-img-aspect-ratio-type=\"portrait\" data-img-aspect-ratio=\"0.67\" data-template=\"Standard Article\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"portrait\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Transmaromba ball\" class=\"img\" height=\"3000\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/1280\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/1\/1441154.jpg\" width=\"2000\"><\/span><\/span><figcaption class=\"img-caption\"><span class=\"inner\"><span class=\"credit\">Photography Roma Joana<\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"meta\">\n<div class=\"inner\"><time datetime=\"2026-03-11T12:09:00+00:00\" class=\"timestamp\" title=\"11 March 2026\"><span class=\"month\">March<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"day\" data-day=\"11\">11,<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"year\">2026<\/span><\/time><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<div class=\"titles\">\n<div class=\"tags\">\n<div class=\"sections\"><a class=\"category vertical - beauty\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/beauty\">Beauty<\/a><br \/>\n\/<br \/>\n<a class=\"series\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/photo-story\">Photo story <\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"standard-tag-container\"><a class=\"standard-category\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/beauty\">Beauty<\/a> \/<br \/>\n<a class=\"standard-series\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/photo-story\">Photo story <\/a><\/div>\n<h1 class=\"title\"><span>Photos from the floor of Rio\u2019s transmasc <span class=\"nowrap\">ballroom scene<\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n<div class=\"standfirst\">\n<h2>Rio de Janeiro\u2019s transmasculine health collective TransMaromba hosted a ball-meets-gym convention, captured here by photographer <span class=\"nowrap\">Roma Joana<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<p><time datetime=\"2026-03-11T12:09:00+00:00\" class=\"timestamp\" title=\"11 March 2026\"><span class=\"month\">March<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"day\" data-day=\"11\">11,<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"year\">2026<\/span><\/time><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><time datetime=\"2026-03-11T12:09:00+00:00\" class=\"timestamp\" title=\"11 March 2026\"><span class=\"month\">March<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"day\" data-day=\"11\">11,<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"year\">2026<\/span><\/time><\/p>\n<div class=\"providers\">\n<div class=\"contributors\"><span class=\"contributor\" data-contributor-role=\"Text\"><span class=\"contributor-role\">Text<\/span><a class=\"contributor-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/user\/TiarnaMeehan\">Tiarna<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"article-body-container\">\n<div class=\"article-body wrapper\">\n<div class=\"dazed-gallery has-25-images \">\n<div class=\"inner\">\n<header>\n<div class=\"info\"><span class=\"heading\">Transmaromba&#8217;s Ball<\/span><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"gallery\">\n<div class=\"gallery-thumbs\">\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/beauty\/gallery\/36825\/0\/transmarombas-ball\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Transmaromba ball\" class=\"img\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/0-870-2000-1333\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/1\/1441156.jpg\" width=\"2000\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/beauty\/gallery\/36825\/1\/transmarombas-ball\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Transmaromba ball\" class=\"img\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/0-630-2000-1333\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/1\/1441142.jpg\" width=\"2000\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/beauty\/gallery\/36825\/2\/transmarombas-ball\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Transmaromba ball\" class=\"img\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/0-713-2000-1333\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/1\/1441143.jpg\" width=\"2000\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/beauty\/gallery\/36825\/3\/transmarombas-ball\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Transmaromba ball\" class=\"img\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/0-803-2000-1333\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/1\/1441144.jpg\" width=\"2000\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/beauty\/gallery\/36825\/4\/transmarombas-ball\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Transmaromba ball\" class=\"img\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/0-390-2000-1333\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/1\/1441145.jpg\" width=\"2000\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/beauty\/gallery\/36825\/5\/transmarombas-ball\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Transmaromba ball\" class=\"img\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/0-518-2000-1333\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/1\/1441146.jpg\" width=\"2000\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-footer\">Gallery \/ 25 images<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>Carnival in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/tag\/rio-de-janeiro\">Rio de Janeiro<\/a> sees the city\u2019s streets flood with crowds of bodies awash in extravagant costumes and beauty looks. But it\u2019s also a time when, photographer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/roma.romama\/?hl=en\">Roma Joana<\/a> says, \u201cconversations about bodies, colour, heat and sweat are everywhere in the city.\u201d Joining that dialogue is the transmasculine health collective <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/trans.maromba021\/\">TransMaromba<\/a>, who threw their Maromba\u2019s Ball, which saw transmasculine bodies, alongside other trans and gender-dissident identities, come together to celebrate and compete in a bodybuilding-meets-ballroom event.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The event married together the city\u2019s thriving ballroom scene with gym culture. It was hosted by TransMaromba founder <\/span><span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/kayode.andrade\/\">Kayod\u00ea Andrade,<\/a> alongside two other transmasculine collaborators <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/paole.matas\/?hl=en\">Paole Matas<\/a> and Nathan Santos. As the community showed up to compete and perform, prizes for categories <\/span><span>inspired by bodybuilding and gym aesthetics \u2013 <\/span><span>such as Realness, Big Body, Sex Siren and Vogue \u2013 were up for grabs, judged by a panel that included important figures from the international ballroom scene; Jota Kayod\u00ea, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/diegocazul\/\">Diego Cazul<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/rothyerkali\/\">Rothyer Juyce Cuture<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/luabrainerrr\/\">Legendary Lua Brainer<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/deedz_zi\/\">Prince Cuxe Candace<\/a>.<\/span><span><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"inline-img expandable dev-view-hide\" data-img=\"51ca6134-612b-461b-af70-b40900ace655\" data-src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/2000\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/1\/1441158.jpg\" data-img-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\" data-img-aspect-ratio=\"1.5\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Transmaromba ball\" class=\"img\" height=\"2000\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/786\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/1\/1441158.jpg\" width=\"3000\"><\/span><\/span><figcaption class=\"img-caption\"><span class=\"credit\">Photography Roma Joana<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>The TransMaromba ball was a celebration of identity \u2013 something that Joana says is vital to the Rio transmasculine scene. \u201c<\/span>Trans bodies have historically been made invisible, silenced, or seen only through the lens of violence and marginalisation,<span>\u201d she says. \u201c<\/span><span>Creating a space of celebration is, first of all, a political act of existence. It\u2019s about saying that our bodies are not just bodies in transition or bodies in dispute, but bodies of power, beauty, strength, and community.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>This energy carries throughout Joana\u2019s photos, which show participants emerging from the thicket of the crowd, some doing last-minute adjustments before taking to the floor, others embracing or losing themselves to the live DJ set. \u201cThere was a strong collective feeling of belonging, like everyone there knew they were experiencing something bigger than themselves. Some people were walking for the first time, others had been in the scene for years. For me, the space became a place of freedom, where I \u2013 and everyone there \u2013 could exist with pride.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Check out the gallery above for more photos from the event.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"newsletter-inline-last\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-small\">\n<div class=\"inner\">\n<h1 class=\"newsletter-title\">Escape the algorithm! 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But it\u2019s also a time when, photographer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/roma.romama\/?hl=en\">Roma Joana<\/a> says, \u201cconversations about bodies, colour, heat and sweat are everywhere in the city.\u201d Joining that dialogue is the transmasculine health collective <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/trans.maromba021\/\">TransMaromba<\/a>, who threw their Maromba\u2019s Ball, which saw transmasculine bodies, alongside other trans and gender-dissident identities, come together to celebrate and compete in a bodybuilding-meets-ballroom event.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The event married together the city\u2019s thriving ballroom scene with gym culture. It was hosted by TransMaromba founder <\/span><span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/kayode.andrade\/\">Kayod\u00ea Andrade,<\/a> alongside two other transmasculine collaborators <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/paole.matas\/?hl=en\">Paole Matas<\/a> and Nathan Santos. As the community showed up to compete and perform, prizes for categories <\/span><span>inspired by bodybuilding and gym aesthetics \u2013 <\/span><span>such as Realness, Big Body, Sex Siren and Vogue \u2013 were up for grabs, judged by a panel that included important figures from the international ballroom scene; Jota Kayod\u00ea, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/diegocazul\/\">Diego Cazul<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/rothyerkali\/\">Rothyer Juyce Cuture<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/luabrainerrr\/\">Legendary Lua Brainer<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/deedz_zi\/\">Prince Cuxe Candace<\/a>.<\/span><span><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"inline-img expandable dev-view-hide\" data-img=\"51ca6134-612b-461b-af70-b40900ace655\" data-src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/2000\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/1\/1441158.jpg\" data-img-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\" data-img-aspect-ratio=\"1.5\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Transmaromba ball\" class=\"img\" height=\"2000\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/786\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/1\/1441158.jpg\" width=\"3000\"><\/span><\/span><figcaption class=\"img-caption\"><span class=\"credit\">Photography Roma Joana<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>The TransMaromba ball was a celebration of identity \u2013 something that Joana says is vital to the Rio transmasculine scene. \u201c<\/span>Trans bodies have historically been made invisible, silenced, or seen only through the lens of violence and marginalisation,<span>\u201d she says. \u201c<\/span><span>Creating a space of celebration is, first of all, a political act of existence. It\u2019s about saying that our bodies are not just bodies in transition or bodies in dispute, but bodies of power, beauty, strength, and community.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>This energy carries throughout Joana\u2019s photos, which show participants emerging from the thicket of the crowd, some doing last-minute adjustments before taking to the floor, others embracing or losing themselves to the live DJ set. \u201cThere was a strong collective feeling of belonging, like everyone there knew they were experiencing something bigger than themselves. Some people were walking for the first time, others had been in the scene for years. For me, the space became a place of freedom, where I \u2013 and everyone there \u2013 could exist with pride.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Check out the gallery above for more photos from the event.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"newsletter-inline-last\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-small\">\n<div class=\"inner\">\n<h1 class=\"newsletter-title\">Escape the algorithm! 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