I also highlight the projection of Liberté
First and foremost, to congratulate them, because it is a project that is growing, they are putting forward every day, they have been putting a lot of work into it, a lot of effort, and those of us who travel through social organizations and institutional spaces know that the road is never easy, and that through organization and struggle, dreams come true.
The reality is that I am not surprised, I am glad that they are two different things, I am glad to see how hundreds of thousands and thousands of compañeros and compañeras continue to organize in all the penitentiary units, but also in all the neighborhoods of our country and how Through the popular economy we are finding answers to the lack of work, which is one of the main problems that we face as a society.
So very happy about this number of productive units that they have from the different branches and with many ideas to continue articulating, INADI, headed by Lidia Pérez, who is our person in charge of the program for people deprived of their liberty and liberty, has been accompanying, It is my turn to come to this unit for the first time, but I had already been to the complex on 44 visiting the trans women who are staying there.
Very happy, with many projects, and with many ideas to continue accompanying this cooperative that is not the name or the procedure, but it does serve to continue knocking on doors, and to obtain the necessary financing, so that this becomes a productive center I would say, with the variety and quantity of things that they are manufacturing and that they are generating.
Workshop on masculinities
We were lucky enough to share a workshop on masculinities, and what that implies, what it is to be a man, how we were educated to be men, how it went through us, what were our links with the men we were close to, our parents, our grandparents , our friends, and the proposal that we have been working on together with Lidia Pérez is to go to the different penitentiary units where male colleagues are housed, to start chatting about what kind of men we want to be, in the situation of confinement, but also what kind of men we will be when we go out.
I think that this first introductory talk, which was quite improvised, went very well, the truth is that the workshop was wonderful, many anecdotes came out, many memories, some that today make us laugh but when we analyze them they are sad, this impossibility that many of us have sometimes men, to show our feelings to tell what happens to us, to ask for help, it is so denied for masculinity that we solve things and sometimes we solve them badly, it seems to me that many were left thinking, happy with the proposal and now let's go to come once a month to work in different workshops, different topics with different pedagogies of popular education so that everything flows, that you be something fun and entertaining, but also reflective.
I am an activist for human rights, my militancy begins with the LGBT community, (Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals and Trans), because I am a trans man, from that, the question does not bother, nor does it bother, far from it, It is a life decision for me, to be visible, to be an activist, and everywhere I go, to say that I am a trans man, fills me with pride and far from causing me shame, it gives me great joy to be able to build myself day by day. day, thinking about what man I want to be, what are the things of masculinity that give me happiness that I like and what I don't, and those that I don't, being able to say I don't want to go through them, I don't identify with them.
We are celebrating ten years of approval of the new gender identity law, but there are still many places where the law is not known, they have not had the opportunity, perhaps, to sit down and have some mates, share a workshop with a trans person and that generates that there are still social prejudices and many barriers, in the specific case here of this project, and of the colleagues who were sharing the workshop, the truth is that it was not noticed, there would be someone who would look at me with the face of this, but friendly, super attentive, participative, I felt very comfortable and that is why the proposal to come once a month to continue sharing with them and understand that all people are equal, that we have to have the same rights, the same opportunities and that the equality does not mean that we are literally equal, we are equal in terms of access to rights, but later, luckily, we are all different and that is what generates diversity, and the richness of our society, not be equal, but on the contrary, be different but be equal in access rights.
Source: Liberte