2009 Gender Symposium "Gender Theory, Feminism and its implications for education" Public Account
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2009 Gender Symposium
Theory Gender, Feminism and its implications for education "
Presentation of abstracts and papers:
School of Philosophy at the Metropolitan University of Educational Sciences (Umce), the women's group Bread and Roses - Teresa Flores and the Center for the Study of Women in Temuco invite students from different universities to participate at the symposium "Gender Theory, Feminism and its implications for education" to be held in August this year.
The Symposium will focus on reflection on themes related to gender, feminist theory and the implications for pedagogy, analysis from the sexist practices in education across the curriculum hidden gender, the ways in which there is the social construction of gender, socialization of these experiences in education, as well as topics related to gender theories and the feminist movement.
Abstracts of no more than 200 words, will be headed by the title of the paper, followed by the name and surname of the author and institution to which he belongs. Must be submitted by June 10, 2009 and emailed to the address provided below. Will be reviewed by a committee and the response of acceptance will be sent via email.
Full papers will be delivered at the time of registration. The papers should be a maximum of 8 facets (apart notes and bibliography), letter size, 1.5-spaced. The maximum exposure time is 20 minutes per paper.
End Date for receipt of papers: June 30, 2009.
Contact
and abstracts: coloquiogenero2009@gmail.com
Data entry form: http://www.coloquiogenero2009.blogspot.com
Organizers:
School of Philosophy UMCE.
Association of Women
Bread and Roses - Teresa Flores.
Center for Women's Studies - Temuco.
Extension Project and Communications Department 2009
Metropolitan University of Educational Sciences Avenida José Pedro Alessandri 774. Ñuñoa
What the president has made the needs of workers, poor women and students?
This May 21 as well as others, we faced a public account of the current government, in that pop up grandly "advancements" and amendments made so we can not complain and be happy about something. But not a year like others, because we're in months of election and this is the last year of Bachelet, which contradicts the crisis have been attacked women workers, poor students, while Bachelet is known well positioned with a high in the polls to support his government.
But why does this contradiction? Is it really the crisis has been met by the president to defend our rights, our jobs and our quality of life? Clearly not, and the contradiction is because the crisis has severely beaten, scaring the poor and working families, opening major momentary trust in a crisis management by the government. Because we can not say that no layoffs or that the crisis has been profound with 1 million 200 thousand redundancies to date, laid-off women who are also part besides that with our colleagues, we had to ingenuity to survive these hard months scratching with subsidies and insecure jobs.
While the president has a high support that takes pride in the media, things have not changed much for women workers in recent years with laws such as the of postnatal that does not benefit us when no provision for the full enjoyment of their salary and not have nurseries and kindergartens, with the debt of good labor practices that only benefit the entrepreneurs to hire us at all costs with the worst conditions, beyond an occasional social as precarious as we continue to earn less salary, and would not respect our rights as working mothers, etc..
our rights have regressed, as we regret to recall that for a year and a few days, no longer available to us the morning after pill at clinics to prevent pregnancy, while pharmacies prices soared contraceptives and in each municipality decides the mayor in office according to their moral and religious convictions whether or not we buy the morning-after pill. This great attack on all women, especially women workers, poor and young people visiting clinics, was missed by Bachelet, although the promised May 21 that it would not, in fact all the coverage given to the right and the church to move on and allow us the reign of clandestine abortion that takes lives of women, such sequelae and imprisonment, as if we were criminals to live in poverty.
The much-celebrated arrival of women to power, embodied by President Bachelet shows his face more gaunt in the women left homeless by the auction of their homes or who are trying to survive with the bonds issued, or the same ingenuity of searching thousands of ways to alleviate the crisis. And we see that being female was no guarantee of anything, because how else can take a bonus of 40 or 80 thousand dollars if no work? How effective can be government policy with the CPC (Confederation of Commerce and Production, a business organization) and the direction of the CUT to alleviate the crisis without start from the basis of accepting the thousands of redundancies by employers?
Given this reality, the absence of progress and rather worsening conditions of our lives, is that it is necessary to question what some women's groups said the figure around Bachelet, women in power and say that although all suffer discrimination, which we really live this reality hits us that unlike the powerful women and the bosses' parties, we have no democracy for the rich to vote each four years, candidates who play with our needs, when the Coalition, and political policies have only kept the bases of the legacy of the dictatorship, Chile holding a neoliberal, conservative, maintaining the privatization and pension fund business, education, health, which provides neither respects rights sexual minorities, criminalizes the Mapuche, etc.
Bread and Roses Since we believe that these elections any variation of the bosses' parties representing our rights, Enriquez-Ominami not even talk about democratic rights as therapeutic abortion when He has also allowed the right lead parliament and now calls to privatize public enterprises, and Frei is just a stale face a crisis Coalition, a project of more attacks worn liberal statism even talk about employers and what to talk about Piñera, who raises the banner of neoliberalism and its double standard speaks of inequalities remain a major employer who has made a profit at our expense, as evidenced by the shares held in the pharmacy FASA. Arrate, organized leftist candidate in the JPM, is also not an option, because the JPM to vote in the parliamentary coalition and in the second round Frei. At the same coalition that for almost two decades has supported the right.
So we call up a women's movement against capitalism, class and revolutionary to defend our rights and demands independently of the bosses' parties, the State, Church, parliament, having been allied with the workers, the student movement and poor people, with women working at the forefront of this struggle. Everything in the way of background drive to the chains that oppress and exploit us to lay the groundwork for a different world that we can free ourselves for what we are fighting for socialist revolution as a perspective without neglecting our problems today. We invite you to discuss and be part of Bread and Roses, about us.
Bread and Roses Teresa Flores
Group composed of women activists and the Class against Class independent
With the slogan "Respect the human rights of everyone! Stop Homophobia! ", LGBT youth of Group 44 of Amnesty International Mexico, were positioned in the center of Coyoacan, south Mexico City, to go to meet the / as bystanders and dialogue with them / as on the urgency of eradicating homophobia in our lives.
In the "World Day Against Homophobia" (17 May), they / as carried banners with expressions against various forms of rejection, discrimination and violence against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender chatted with passers-by on the daily manifestations of homophobia in the capital, shared information on cases and postal allusions, and managed to involve adults and young girls, boys on the dynamics of the "Tree rights "and in the exhibition" Discriminating dehumanizing. "
Along , echoed the urgent actions and public statements on violations of human rights of LGBT in Peru Honduras, Burundi, Nigeria and Iraq.
Mexico Amnesty International urged President Calderón and the federal government to issue a decree to establish May 17 as "National Day Against Homophobia."
"To remain silent is to pass," the AI \u200b\u200bstatement-Mexico and emphasizes: "The state must provide a range of protections and take action to promote human rights in order to create the instrumental conditions necessary to ensure that people rights to enjoy sex and find love. "
According to the activists of the LGBT Group 44, have a day marked against homophobia in Mexico will serve to remind society of the long journey of the LGBT movement that seeks to eradicate homophobia, to bring back memories of so many victims of homophobic violence, to highlight the importance of this struggle, and to recognize the work of many LGBT activists in recent years have worked hard for the full respect for human rights ( Manuel Herrera Loayza, LGBT Group 44).
Homosexuality is a right and a sexual preference. Homophobia is not natural.
Stop discrimination!
been 19 years since the May 17, 1990, the day he was removed "homosexuality" from the list of "diseases "the World Health Organization (WHO), but our conditions have not changed substantially.
Chile (according to studies by the University of Chile and the Ideas Foundation) presents dangerous levels intolerance against homosexuals. Thus, by the mere fact tell us or accept us as non-heterosexual, we are discriminated against at once, driving us out of schools and workplaces, with difficult access in the workplace, education and health, framed in the great conservatism led mainly by Church and the Right. But it is no coincidence that we discriminate, because we are sexual minorities that question in fact the institution of the family and thus the legacy of patriarchy, for failure to leave offspring, ie, employers might say, "labor" cheap is suitable for the growth of the country, ultimately to the production and reproduction of capitalist society.
Thus, playback is interrupted and the construction of social order around the figure of heterosexual marriage, without reproducing, thus a direct social roles, gender, religious and moral that we daily impose the mass media to direct the moral influence of the Church, bombarding us with images that support and sustain the family as the only valid link relationships, exposing it as "normal" and "natural," since the attraction between persons of the same sex is present from the existence of human beings.
The Law Discrimination rested 4 years in Parliament (composed of the Concertación and the Right), which keeps intact the same laws that discriminate against us, for example, Article 373 of the penal code that condemns the moral offense and good manners to the expression of love between same sex, which we arbitrarily applied by the police that legalizes discrimination and repression. Another example is Article 365 (governs under 18) that establishes a certain age in order to maintain a relationship with someone of the same sex, unlike heterosexual.
is this law upon which the Movilh (Gay Liberation Movement) has tried to add an item on the respect for sexual orientation to defend sexual minorities, but this law has been incorporated the evangelical church "as oppressed sector of the Great Catholic Church." While evangelicals are the same as those who have spoken strongly against homosexuality, verbally attacking organizations like the MUMS and Movilh, and seeking to prevent the Law Against Discrimination add this point. Therefore it is necessary to defend ourselves and not compromise with these religious groups, we must reject that in so general a law like this should also be included religious minorities, when the same religions and churches that support and reinforce the discrimination sexual minorities in reality.
believe from Bread and Roses - Teresa Flores to be progress in the fight for our democratic rights, such as the Civil Union, against the criminalization by putting limits our sexual status and prohibitions of discrimination, the right to education, etc. You need to join forces with women's organizations, students, human rights and left, especially with organizations of workers, to prepare a response both to the discharge of the economic crisis make employers and the government over our shoulders ( layoffs, downsizing, increased hours of work, labor flexibility, etc..) uniformly and to defend our rights, fighting independently of any variation of the government, the bosses' parties (both the Right and the Coalition and the Independents ") and the Church.
is necessary to promote an active struggle for our rights, but to conquer and hold, it is necessary to struggle against capitalism, fighting for a socialist revolution to end the hypocrisy background imposed on us by the capitalist state and Church, its double standards as we discriminate by not correspond to the heteronormative, while allowing rape, abuse, maltreatment, defending "values" and a culture built on foundations of humiliation, oppression and exploitation. Only then can we confront the state to criminalize our condition, "naturalized" our oppression and hanging chains further worsen if we are workers, workers and poor. The struggle of GLBT (1) is the struggle against capitalism and patriarchy which only occur in conjunction with all the oppressed and exploited by the capitalist system from its ruins to build a society of true equality and freedom. Only in this way can we lay the concrete foundation and favorable for a sexuality free from all forms of oppression, where we / I can decide on our bodies and our lives.
Bread and Roses - Teresa Flores invites you to build together and fight together, these flags, so we are hundreds of thousands carry out this task to end this system of exploitation and oppression and win our liberation.
For the prohibition by law of dismissal and expulsion from school and work by gender and sexual orientation.
For the right to free exercise of our sexuality.
Stop discrimination and violence against GLBT.
For sex education without moral of the Church.
For the effective separation of church and state.
1. Gays, Lesbians, Bisexuals, Transvestites and Transsexuals.
Bread and Roses
Group composed of women activists and independent Class against Class
Day activism in the World Day Against Homophobia (May 17)
invites the LGBT Group 44 of Amnesty International Mexico .
With the motto Respect for Human Rights of Every Person! HOMOPHOBIA STOP! , the action takes place at the center of Coyoacan this Sunday May 17 from 3 pm to 7 pm
Amnesty International argues that all people, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity, should enjoy all human rights.
because all people are equal and have rights, NO to discrimination!
Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Against Homophobia and Discrimination
Here, some excerpts from the panel "Women lesbian, bisexual and transgender people: Turning Against Homophobia, for their rights" , we do as LGBT Group 44 of Amnesty International-Mexico under the World Day Against Homophobia and the exhibition "Discriminate dehumanizes" Last year, for the same dates.
Myriam Brito, bisexual activist, involved in the coordination of group Bi.
What made the group to combat the stigma of bisexuality? "The Bisexual Option group, which we tried to do first was to understand what was this stigma of bisexuality, what their components, and we've tried to be dismantled, ie the Women who have a bisexual orientation are not promiscuous, there may be another and who is who no, but that does not matter if it's bisexual or not we are not infidels, we are able to establish long term. The issue of HIV infection is not dependent on sexual orientation are not indefinite, we are in transition. The orientation is not the only lesbian sexual orientation. We'll have to go beyond these dichotomies new gender (male-female, homosexual, heterosexual). Human reality, and as human and humane, we see that is more complex, richer, more full of possibilities and options. We are not unsafe, we know what we want, that's our definition, be bisexual. "
will need to continue fighting the invisibility of bisexual women, which just feeds the stigma: "we will continue to beat at the point, because it is easy to disappear from the map of the vision of people" .
The challenge is to demonstrate. "It's really very difficult to make visible, then the job is just trying to do from Option Bi: visible, fighting stigma. I say we work like ants ... Let pasito in step, not the path we have done lesbian and gay movement. As a movement we are just beginning, we simply position ourselves and say we are bisexual, and explain to gays and lesbians, or is to start at home first, as it somehow ".
"So, look, we just ten years, actually when compared to the work being gays and lesbians working, it's nothing, we are in the first steps and in diapers, we are only at this stage to inform and sensitize" .
Angie Rueda, transgender activist and official of CONAPRED.
"I am a transgender woman. I'm not quarreling with my biological birth sex, in my case. I know there are cases of extremely serious gender discrepancy that led to friends to self-mutilation or even suicide. "
about how she has experienced discrimination, said: " radical feminists and women ... lesbians-and that was a struggle that is taking place, do not consider me as a woman, that is, discrimination is between homosexual men who condemn the queens, transvestites, Jacks; conservative women do not consider me a woman, or lesbian feminist radical women who consider me a man failed, fifth columnist. But also within that trans women have an obsession with the imposition of the dictatorship of stereotypes, which it said Myramar, "who is the fair?, Which manages to pass as a woman to forget not only activism but pretend to forget who it was. I say this with respect, because the issue of gender dysphoria is a very serious issue, but have the risk of building, then, models of women under the stereotypes, the more conventional dictatorships. And we feel between us.
There are girls for whom transvestites people are like the last grade, the last leg ... and there are girls transvestites that even without hormonal reassignment for genetic issues, exercise, otherwise, would like Western women that are in television, and there are beautiful transsexual girls from that point of view, but always with the obsession that no one will discover why it is logical that lived a previous life ... "
Speaking of the changes that have come to life, now as a transgender activist, she says "Yes I have been given a vision, has given me an experience ... not only allowed me to regain my joy ... my children and Angiee, recover my joie de vivre, a sense of authenticity, dignity of who I am and what I believe, and I started talking with them, I just started to talk to them is a long road, is the bet of my life. "
Paulina Martínez coordinates Metal Muses Group AC Gay Women
your organization conducted an investigation on the discrimination lesbians and bisexuals who took two years. Through interviews, shaped the life stories of 42 lesbian and bisexual women, and focused on the analysis of 21. Most are from the Federal District, some from other states, and two Argentine and Guatemalan. Their ages range from 20 to 56 years. Some were mothers, other students, other professionals, some go to the group Metal Muses, some not, some have to do with activism and others do not also interviewed couples and also some women trans.
"The idea was to see or homophobic crimes transphobia are sometimes very violent, end in death, and then that makes them very bright and make an inquiry, not in all cases, not all countries, but what really stands out. The case of lesbian, bisexual, is not so well known because not always or necessarily grows into a murder. And maybe the violence experienced is not so great, why not them realize that lesbians are discriminated against and bisexual women either. Then, as a sector that we consider marginalized within the marginalization, we decided to do this research. "
" Women do not discuss with anyone about their orientation sexual, spends much time for it to open, and sometimes it depends on have found someone who supports them, maybe a first approach can make a big difference, but if not, reach adulthood in doubt with very little information. "
Most respondents reported that their homes had not been appointed the word" lesbian "during her childhood, however, they had heard homophobic messages about homosexuals. Indirectly understood that if they were gay, but had no awareness of the word, they were acting improperly. "lesbiandad do not talk about, but it is understood that homosexuality is wrong, and therefore does not manifest" .
Most families tend to make a remark to the attitudes they consider male. The word "butch", for example, was settled in the stories of those interviewed did not want to be so identified. "It is related to be butch to be inadequate, then I do not want to be inadequate, I have to adapt the model stereotypical female. And femininity is overvalued and going toward the male side is frowned upon ".
Magalli Piña, member of Group 44 of Amnesty International LGBT Mexico.
In 2005, Amnesty International's U.S. section, produced a report on police abuses against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. "The results are staggering. In the most powerful country in the world the abuses against the LGBT community are equally powerful. "
In the U.S., LGBT people under 21 years suffer considerable harassment in school and increased risk of domestic violence. And it is estimated that some U.S. cities up to 40 percent of homeless youth are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transsexual or transgender. This report shows that homophobia and racism often go together. A significant proportion of complaints against LGBT people as protagonists had individuals belonging to minority racial or ethnic groups. Age, socioeconomic status and immigration status contribute to increased risk of abuse by officials who must enforce the law.
"One of the difficulties which we faced each other in Amnesty International's researchers, is that when making his inquiries into abuses against LGBT people, both within the general community as part of state officials no information. The authorities suffer from it, also non-governmental organizations at the national or state level. And this is because there is no complaint, there is no monitoring of complaints when it comes any, to which often are so threatening them, to follow them, can make anyone give up, and feeling so vulnerable, much more. "
(Prepared by: Manuel Herrera L., Group 44 LGBT-AI Mexico)
