surely we are seeing things about
my
based on what I’m seeing based on
the clothes that I wear my body my face my
accent my language the age that I gave
bye
in the end the prejudices are a
basic human understanding tool
of the world
we learn to separate the concepts already
divide things into squares to
to be able to understand them and separate people
in groups and to your group we give you a
man and those names
sometimes they carry stigmas with
expectations with stereotypes with
feelings of belonging but about
everything is arbitrary taxes
I’m not really ana, but that gives
same my name of the same the important thing
here is that I am a woman that I am young
millennial of these horrible I’m from
murcia I am Spanish European white or
Hispanic depends on the nomenclature
visual student youtube and finally a
series of labels that encode me
within society and you us
allow me to identify myself as an ally or
enemy or as part of our group or
as someone who they heard listen
these things mean something to
you, even if you do not want that country
I had no intention
we are all socially interpreted in
base to what our label
means to others and this is a
moved because when you do not do there’s no
in a natural way some categories in the
that fit we learn from small
that exists in them and we
we learn a lot of horrible things
about them that make us cling very
strong what makes us many
times classification systems for
making systems of discrimination
It turns out that I ‘ve told you a series of
things about me that have been done to you
Surely assume data and information
that happen to be false
but that’s how prejudices work
probably someone in this room and
assuming that by being young has never
worked you may have assumed that by
being a woman I do not have hair on my body or
you have the right to express your opinion about these
things what people think about everything
sometimes or maybe you are assuming that
because I’m from Murcia in which Catalan is
an entity may be assuming that
I am a heavy activist because today the
profile and although this is not quite
lie
it seems very unfair to have to charge
with the stigmas and expectations
and the stereotypes that come with the
labels that have been imposed on me by
face
I mean, you separate humanity
the differentiated groups while two
arbitrary categories he got a
meaning hell you want and for
fit in one of them
I have to accept your crazy ideas about
who am I who stopped being good
because all this was around in my head
A few years ago when I realized the
limited they give identity when
I tried to reduce the list of words and
At that time I stood and told the
world then all these things that
they mean a lot of moves for
you do not define me
I am a free individual of the
social structure and the labels are
parents and define yourself is to limit yourself and
all these things not so spoiler no no
it works like this because even though I took this
signature decision I continue then my
path
after giving up labels and
be an individual and all this and I continued
my path with the firm conviction that
life is a series of circumstances and
individual and free decisions but
then I started to see things that do not fit
for example data that I’m leaving in
2016 increased by 36 percent the
hate crimes for homophobia by 25%
racist aggressions
I’m talking only about what is
denunciation speaking of denunciations in Spain
one rape was reported every eight
hours and in europe
one in 20 women over 15
years has been violated ever and for
understand this to stand up to this
really need labels and remember
and recently the michu hashtag that took out
the light a lot of cases of aggression
sexual or bus work that
dedicated to roam around Spain ago
little and all the people who said that
All of these were isolated cases .
they are and it is not chance this I do not say
I say the data that is already a lot
chance
to certain problems that always affect
towards these groups groups of people
that the only thing they have in common is
them is a label is very good that
do not want to reduce your identity to a
list of words and I’m glad but I have
bad news society disagrees very
strong and that in practice means
that yes they do their labels and that
you define your life experience while
live between people
will depend directly on who you are
not as individuals but as part of a
group another group and again this does not
I mean
this has been the subject of debate within the
academic feminism within the
different activism for a long time
time and we have on the one hand the
insistence that we are all equal and
On the other hand , self-defense mechanisms
how are the mixed spaces or the
reappropriation of the insult or
emergence of a lot of labels
new I understand that you do not understand and
I know it seems contradictory and that’s why
I think it’s important to land this
debate and see what we can do with this
today because I also have good news
because the majority here knows how
a tag works in networks
social
how nice a hashtag is that it does not
serves only to categorize publication
If you click on a hashtag , all
a conversation that connects people
from around the world around that same
label experience that of that
group in common
talking about social networks there are
someone here wondering why I
have invited this talk as if
knew what is talking about someone
important
and the reason is that it has a channel of
youtube for a while from 4
basically my life and last year I went up
a video in which he basically talks about
my experience as a human being or
bisexual and my relationship with that label
I received many comments and the one that boyle
now he is only one of them but
representative of the conversation that
this generated and as it did not spend essence what
I will read directly from this Thursday
in my pocket because I could not
bother to do a power point says I’m
bisexual and I’m 21 years old
in this video he has said many things that
I needed to hear and message accept me in a
moment when I felt crippled and
began to give up the idea of
reaffirm the identity of truth
thank you very much because with this I
I feel very understood and much less
only the grace of this is that I do not
I had done nothing
I was only existing publicly and
with tag
it turns out that having a label is having
a community and since it stops me
observe how they interact with us
the social categories certainly the most
pretty I ‘ve seen is how are you
labels often turn into
groups of people in common experiences
in claim and pride
when you are part of a minority
social their labels have double edge and
that allows you to strike back are the
empowerment tool and they are you
political weapon
nobody can hurt you if you yourself
you stop trying to avoid that label you
appropriate your identity and puts you
stand and wars a flag and tell the
world if I am for example a woman
easy promiscuous what the rae would say
this is seriously the network puts that real
The academy of the Lord is good if you do that
and it says if I am what it is and we are a
heap more and we are valid and we exist and
it is better that he be made to the idea
that’s how stigmas and labels
that you carry under your arm all your life
they become your weapon to question
a system that sought to question whether to
because humanity is diverse and the
wonderful diversity and we should to what
better start stop away
look
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