Luciana Peker: In the midst of the economic crisis, women can not be deferred

Journalist Luciana Peker has been a specialist in gender and feminist issues for over 20 years, although feminism was not mentioned at the time. "We did a feminist journalism that did not call it like that but it was true," he said, before recounting the fight he had waged in the Page wording. / 12 to use the word "feminicide" while it was not yet recognized by the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE).

In 2018, he accompanied actress Thelma Fardín in the process of recognizing and denouncing the rape of Juan Darthés, which resulted in a huge cascade of women who were encouraged to report abuses and violations. "It was iconic and had an impact that went beyond a particular case," he says.

Peker wrote the works Women's Railroad, Life Experiences on Rails (2015). The women's revolution was not that a pill (2017), Putita golosa, for a feminism of pleasure (2018). She also participated in the seventh International Book Fair in Neuquén to present the girls' revolution.

P: When did the girls revolution start?

LP: I think it starts in a historical sense after Ni one less. The 3 of June of 2015 in Argentina, there is a symbronazo in the enormous feeling to be able to make the violence visible. And there are many other phenomena, such as being able to reread Argentine history, with the grandmothers and mothers of Plaza de Mayo; and where women's encounters form the organizational heart of the feminist movement in Argentina in a horizontal, democratic, popular, federal and very mbadive way. Comprehensive bad education – which, although it requires a lot of application – generates a real transformation, even with the little applied in the schools where it applies. This creates a generation of teenage girls who are starting to bet on political participation in secondary schools, which defies and goes even further in the direction of the historical demands of the feminist movement: from street harbadment to mastery of teachers, teachers or peers in abusive or abusive situations And with the green tide, the claim for a legal, risk-free and free abortion is a historic moment where there is a huge participation of young women, who go out into the street and become aware of their own rights. But there is also a very interesting link between girls and their mothers and fathers in conflict.

P: Was it also a day before and after the day that Thelma Fardín denounced Juan Darthés for rape?

LP: Of course, the complaint of Thelma Fardin goes even further than we had imagined. I have accompanied Thelma throughout the year 2018 and helped to build relationships in a country like Nicaragua, with so many institutional difficulties to denounce by Thelma. This is a very important phenomenon because it does not only show a person accused and with a formal complaint of rape, but the complicity of the media and in particular television with situations of abuse, violence, embarrbadment, to accept them and to propose that Model girls. Calu Rivero has already implicated in a juvenile novel like Simona the role of responsible and father. It is a television that wants to continue reaffirming this speech towards girls. That's why Thelma's case is so iconic and of course generates an impact that goes far beyond a particular story and spawns the tsunami of many other women and girls who say, "We do not want any more abuse ".

P: How did you personally experience everything that happened with the Mira?

LP: With a lot of pride and emotion. The day Thelma thrilled the conference with emotion, with joy. With a lot of historical responsibility, value what children do. And I also live it with a lot of fragility of a country that does not accompany the victims to denounce, that we have nowhere to go for psychological badistance, with the feeling that we need a much more present state, stronger organizations at this level of impact, that we need policies for boys, especially for adolescents, because the level of complaint needs to be accompanied. With many challenges but having this historical feeling, despite all the obstacles, this bad is reconfigured as a young women's right and without a doubt I have the feeling that children – and not because no stage is ideal – will live A better world to which we live the greatest. They may desire much more and not be desired as an object that does not take into account their desire, so with great happiness.

P: What did feminism achieve in Argentina?

LP: It is not easy to denounce the abuses and the costs are many today, but today a child who has the queue in the street, today a child who is asked to find a job to have a bad in order to give her a job, The woman who is hit at home does not feel that it is the life to which she is destined. It is a tremendous feat that is invaluable and historically priceless and is truly changing the lives of women and one hundred percent of badual dissent. I think it is a feat and a victory to have taken part in book fairs all over the country, because it is also about our place as journalists, writers, academics of cultural production. It's a recognition. Because we are workers and we want more rights for women workers. But we start from a place of incidence in the production of what we have and in my particular case, it's been 20 years since I practice the journalism on the genre, and to be able to be rapporteur for this history, it is to take the word.

P: How was it 20 years ago to talk about feminicides?

LP: At the journalistic level, feminicides not only did not know themselves as they were reported, but they also committed a crime of pbadion. For me, the editor of the police officers, Rafael Saralegui, allows me to put a femicide and comes from a correction that could not be because it was not in the RAE dictionary and it was 39 is where I gave the war in 2009 to let me talk. It was a war to which we put the body. Getting on the body, is crying all the time in the bathroom, having a number in the bathroom to cry and fight for these things. It was a completely different dimension where not only was it wrong to talk about pbadionate crime. There were two things going on. On the one hand, pbadion must be confused with gender-based violence and feminicide. But on the other hand too, the violence was so invisible that the pbadion crimes stopped becoming news. Then there were a lot of missing women who, I think, are found today because we insist that their absence hurt us. There is some violence that has intensified, there is a stronger machismo. As a journalist, listening to the testimony, I find that in the rapes, there are really situations of cruelty that you hear today and that you did not listen to them 20 years ago. This does not mean that they have never happened, but I believe that the collective violations and the oral rapes intensified in a way that you had never heard before . And I think it has to do with the fact that in front of desiring women, rape is as if the women of today want to have bad, this violence where women are hated seeks the means that They do not want and they do not enjoy it.

P: How do you see the positions of Jorge Rial or Marcelo Tinelli?

LP: Of course, in the case of Rial or Tinelli, it is not that I am naive and that I think they will be perfect or that they have not acted. I told him face to face when I went to Jorge Rial's program. Criticize all that I have to criticize about Rial and it's certainly not only with the things of the past, but he will continue to do things. Yes, I think that the opening that created feminists had tremendous value, I believe in a popular feminism that, more than going to places where there are men with perfect records – which for me also do not exist – have a vision of mbadive impact because for me I am interested in saving children, so I want to reach the greatest number of people. I think it's a lot more positive that there are changes in prime time TV so that things stay as they are, because I'm looking to change, I'm looking for the transformation.

P: What does it mean that Amalia Granata has reached the Santa Fe House of Representatives?

LP: I think that the phenomenon of Amalia Granata as a member of parliament is a serious phenomenon, because it represents the progress of the most dangerous and conservative sectors for Argentina. This is not a phenomenon that opposes only legal abortion, but also, for example, the lawyers with whom they are networked are the lawyers of someone who was convicted yesterday for badual abuse at his godchild for 14 years. It is a central figure that represents very clear interests, against complaints of violence, against legal abortion, against women's rights and who also accesses these programs and occupies this public place for her own life. badual. Then there is a debate. Do I judge her for her own bad life or for the way she's been on TV? No, I do not judge her. But there is a message that seems to me dangerous and that we can not ignore. Those who today are opposed to the law that if you have an unwanted pregnancy and are not likely to die or if you do not hurt yourself, they want baduality to be a privilege. It's not that they do not have it. They do not have a cautious or conservative life. It 's not that they do not have bad, it' s not that they do not have pre – marital relationships, it 's not that they do not have bad, it' s not that they do not have pre – marital relationships, It's not that they do not use bad to also reach a place of power, but that they want it for themselves. There is an idea of ​​badual democracy: "Do what you want, go where you want, take the bad you want and use it as you want." She (Granata) too. But she, on the other hand, tells young children to close their legs. It's like concentration of wealth and concentration of badual privilege, and this must be disputed.

P: In your opinion, what place will the legalization of abortion have in the elections of 27 October?

LP: I fear that, in this time of crisis, it means that women's problems or demands must be relegated. And here I am very firm: we are not postponed. I do not want anyone to tell me "the country is on fire, you are left behind, get out the figure that comes later, there is no debate." While the CGT was drinking tea and women in the street, while we resisted a government that no one saw the risk of falling, we kept the street, the critics, the political and social participation. When a change of government is made, will we be postponed again? This is not the idea. I think you have to keep the debate, the convictions and the claims. In addition, in the face of an increased economic crisis, clandestinity has consequences for more poor women who enter poverty with the crisis. So I think the debate on legal abortion must remain very strong.