invited to the opening of formal equality to lesbian reality
"We must stop considering silence as equivalent of absence for rather see it as the presence of a large number of obstacles . " secret - Inter-American Commission on human rights for gay and lesbians.
The Safina are a lesbian group formed in August 2003 after participating in the Workshop for Lesbian Women's National Meeting held in Rosario.
needed a place to reflect on issues we were common.
For the fight could be the first concrete was to exist and be visible.
For lesbian women, we could say that there is a bonus given by the non-male sexual object choice, which breaks with the compulsory heterosexual norm imposed in this patriarchal system.
By not belong to the subjective standard, lesbians are socially invisible, meaning, if not express our existence with practice or with words that speak of our identity, we would be considered heterosexual .... And the question would be what is the need to talk about something as personal as our sexual intimacy? Because that does not pose a daily basis: "I'm not saying I am by no straight.
The reason for this rule need not heterosexual, it is because we assume it all. To us a hard time explain our sexual identity, first, because we are breaking with something that was expected of us. At the household level, social level and many feel they would cause damage to your affections, if they do.
turn, for which we dare to be visible, the moral sanctions, economic and social felt. Also great is the benefit of mental health grants do not have to be hiding.
The first closet of all we have to go as a genre, is to leave the private space to dare to build assets in social actors, which involves speak, think or decide on the public, space we were forbidden in our education.
voted and paid taxes, but ... we access rights of citizenship? Employment Discrimination:
- Being lesbian is not considered at the time of taking the place of representation.
- Being a victim of ridicule, mockery, isolation and sexual harassment.
- not access the same rights as heterosexual unions license.
- not able to give our partners health coverage.
worth noting that the equal marriage law, people who choose to marry if they would be able to have the same rights as heterosexuals, but not everyone agrees with the institution of marriage, and unmarried couples who are living together, even without these benefits.
also to illustrate, in the group are 9 of which only two have jobs, and these two one is not visible in work. Why?. I think responses to this question are manifold. On the one hand social discrimination, the whole body is encouraged to transgress aesthetic standards and reinvented, say "speaking bodies" ... What we sometimes can not say, or what we believe is our way of saying, "who wants to see that" . On the other hand also the sequel discrimination erodes self-esteem, and it is difficult to enter the labor market without it.
Right to education .
The premise of compulsory heterosexuality property the educational system that serves as a regulated country and invisible any alternative sexual orientation is the first act of symbolic violence to which we are subject as lesbians.
Some lesbians are at an early age discriminatory treatment not fit gender stereotypes by their peers.
What's worse is naturalization by the educational authorities of such practices, and lack of work regarding the denial of the conflicts that it brings people suffer such humiliating treatment.
Importantly the possibility of taking the Law Sex Education in schools as space for the transformation of these cultural patterns that deny the differences, invisible and discriminate, treating to generate healthy people, that are likely to decide over their own bodies and capable of being responsible in terms of link building more democratic and egalitarian.
The reality of families within the system homo education is totally denied, we need not give examples, each which recalled their own experiences and know that reading a book deal everyday situations of our families, when all is played model: mom, dad, and sons, daughters.
Right to health .
The lesbians hide their sexual orientation often get misdiagnosed.
The invisibility of lesbians in the health system by the premise of the hetero-normative leaves some without assistance and other areas exposed to the prejudices of health actors.
devices in sexual and reproductive health, and preventive kits no latex barriers we have, that would be recommended when performing oral sex practices .
Lesbians who live motherhood as an existential need, feel important for the health system, consider the practices of artificial insemination.
is the concealment, discrimination and cultural imposition of heterosexuality as the only option in life that makes us sick, not our sexual orientation.
Right to housing:
Many of us had to leave our family home at an early age, family rejection, or the need for independence for live our relationships ...
pension Many of the city are populated by lesbians, but they can not say you are actually a result of this weak link.
It is in them, which also breed violence. Recently we found one: a girl other pension partner throws boiling water to a discussion and the insults, saying "dyke"!, Assuming their sexual identity. The worst thing is that in these situations, if it were the victim is afraid to denounce and expose the fact that he fears re-victimizes her again.
Finally we seek justice for the lesbicide Natalia Gaitán, who was a victim of the violence of his girlfriend's stepfather, who kills on 7 March 2010 in the city of Cordoba for not agreeing with the link.
And remind it makes us think that the reality of lesbians, not to all alike. The poorest, who are of another ethnicity, which come from another race, who have a disability, are less opportunities they have.
" To live we need to work, health and education, but also of freedom, dignity and a life without violence.
There is no hierarchy among human rights, some are not more important than others. (American campaign by a convention of sexual and reproductive rights).
Maria Eugenia Sarrias