"Patriarchy will fall" | Women's Assembly …

A large women's badembly was held yesterday at the Cervantes National Theater (TNC). During 11 hours, workshops, conversations, screenings and a feminist book fair were held at the Coliseo of Libertad Street, among other activities, with the participation of artistic and intellectual leaders of the world such as Nora Cortiñas, Dora Barrancos, Rita Segato, Claudia Piñeiro, Dolores Fonzi, Julieta Benegas and Charo Bogarín. The hope generated by the current feminist movement has gone through the first day of action with which the CNC inaugurated its 2019 season.

For three years, these actions have a great convening power. A complete public theater is a beautiful scene to watch. In 2017, the 33 works written by Eduardo "Tato" Pavlovsky have sounded in all halls, an act of justice since he had been ignored by the Cervantes. And last year, the event was dedicated to the figure of Karl Marx. On this occasion, the Women's Assembly proposed a symbolic revival of the comedy of Aristophanes, in which the author proposed, in the fourth century BC, what would have happened if women had decided to take up public affairs.

"It's amazing to see the theater like this one on a Saturday afternoon listening to Rita Segato," said Maria O Donnell, observing the room María Guerrero and the more than 700 people present. Even the four levels of boxes were busy. There were women of different generations, from girls to old people, and some, very few – very few men! -. The lively exchange between the journalist and the anthropologist deserved several accomplices of applause and laughter. He addressed topics such as rape, the feminist movement, a new political era, the patriarchal eye, racism and the state's inability to respond to gender-based violence.

"The state has not touched a molecule of violence against women because it has a basic mistake.We can not deliver to the state apparatus , who keeps a permanent distance with what he administers, the management of our relationships.We must start working on mechanisms allowing people to manage themselves the relations between men and women, "said l & # 39; ;intellectual. He valued what was happening in the street and especially the "lucidity" of new generations. Another emergency that he mentioned concerns the "thorny and painful problem that is racism", which "has not been touched in the country".

The differences between Latin American and Anglo-Saxon feminism, his findings in interviews with prisoners of rape in Brasilia and the double standard of justice are other topics that Segato reviewed with clarity and clarity. "The crimes of patriarchy are political, they are masked and disguised behind a religious-moral discourse," he said. On the current moment of feminism, she said, "We are bonded together, something is happening, you must take care of your baby so as not to spoil him with a short-term vision." If we know how to deal with it , a new historical era is opening up, where the politics are different and recover this shaven and canceled politicism, which is the way women manage life ". He said, in this line, that "male fraternity is a corporate structure".

As might be expected, many women wandering around the CNT wore green handkerchiefs in dolls and backpacks. A street vendor offered handkerchiefs in the street with different models and slogans. Inside, the mood of the theater was changed by the proposal: even in the bathrooms, there were posters containing data on gender issues, and a sign indicated, for example, the path to a bathroom "without distinction of bad". The merchandising of the theater – from bags announcing the fall of the patriarchate to the books of the last editions – was proposed in a stand installed in the foyer. Right next door, at the Café Las Meninas, where the pre-FilFem International Women's Book Fair was held, another important audience was circulating.

On the fifth floor, in a rehearsal room, ten illustrators and visual artists worked live to pay tribute to the victims of gender-based violence. In addition, there were films from different countries and an audiovisual installation of Manifiesta, a feminist communication cooperative, with a collection of speeches for and against during plenary sessions of the Senate committees as part of the debate on the legalization of the # 39; abortion. The two main sections were the workshops and "Underlined", in which the readings were commented. In addition to the program, the audience received a "possible timeline" on women's history, with research and texts by Soledad Vallejos.

Later also in the room María Guerrero, the public sang the "Happy Birthday" of Nora Cortiñas, who turned 89 on Friday. The reference of the mothers of the Plaza de Mayo-Línea Fundadora participated in the conference "The long march of women in Argentina", Dora Barrancos, with the presentation of María Florencia Alcaraz. The sociologist and historian reviewed the participation and political struggle of women in the 19th century. When she reached the 20th century, she highlighted the role of women and especially mothers, who seemed apolitical but "became proud policemen, perhaps the most magnificent that Argentina had." in the twentieth century. "" We left the invisibility of women, "said Cortiñas, and acknowledged that there was a time when she did not define herself as a feminist. "The first years, the mothers were in the square, the people went by, I saw the group and they did not see us, I was still long.There was so much terror that it was so bad. he did not dare to ask what we were doing or what we were looking for.if there was a great repression, they made us prisoners and they hurt us, we were news and we existed We have been abused by the military, on the one hand by church leaders and by politicians, imagine if we had declared ourselves feminists, in the end we were, "he reflected. .

"In a few years, the world will be a little better, I'm sure the patriarchy will fall," said Barrancos. So he synthesized something of the spirit of this badembly. This was of course not the only speech that spoke of the hope transmitted by the new generations. "Young feminists today have broken with the canons of heterobadist morality," said the historian. He highlighted the work of the Ni Una Menos movement and "the intolerance that has driven so many women to watch the world impbadively while killing women". "It's a way to help the death of a part of ourselves," he concluded. Ingrid Beck, Mariana Carbajal, Liliana Daunes, Diana Maffia, Maria Moreno, Natalia Menstrual, Luciana Peker, Susy Shock, Marlene Wayar and Eugenia Zicavo also participated in the Women's Assembly.