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hello everyone thank you very much for being
here
good if you look for me on the internet
you will find me as a catalina
god and if as you imagine it is a
scolding that they have repeated to me since
I am a girl again and again throughout
all my life and you will wonder
what is that so irresistible rebel
so weird that I’m doing it for
all my life so that people
Catherine made that mining scolding by
God, I am going to tell you the truth
nothing nothing
I grew up in a house where I
they raised three wonderful women
autonomous independent independents
self-sufficient each a little a
little the glass ceiling that touched him
and I the beautiful ones able to do everything and
I said good it can not be that I do not
I can do it all too however
the problem started when I left
of the house inside the house
they celebrated me my opinions give me
participate in family discussions
I could talk could I had given
as a fixed idea with the free
personality development but
just out of the house and started to
speak to interrupt to say to run to
mount me the trees love dirty me the
dressed people said to me catalina by
god and this way until the university and
to date
and then why did I stay long
a lot of time in it tells me that this
it’s a gender problem because if
I would have been a child who does all
those things had told me
catalino that the catalino leader that
so then it is a problem of
gender and that’s why I come to talk to you about
feminism that is a subject that to me
passionate and that has given me many
answers for life is a lens that
has shown me a lot of inequality is
that not only affect me
particularly but they affect us
all but especially all and without
However, many times he does not understand
what are those inequalities
because the world is made so that
we see them we do not realize and many
of the rights that we have today the
women how to vote has property
have reproductive autonomy
I think we do not have it all women
we see some privileged
we take for granted and we believe that this has
been obvious of all life but not and the
person who has had the most influence
in my life it was that he taught me that this
it was not a gift my great grandmother carlota
Garcia
she was born in 1900 on a farm
coffee maker and he realized very
quickly make your place in the world
was to give workers for the farm and
then feed them she does not go
to teach how to read and write were not going
to her or really nothing, that was her
function in the world and then she
He decided to escape from the house and went to
Medellin where he did many things between
they worked as workers in the
textile factories where they happened
the first strikes by women in
Colombia knows why it protested the
women in Colombia in 1919 so that the
they will let go with shoes to work and
other things he did was military with the
yesterday’s suffragettes to a liberal woman with
political ideas lit and it
tar had to attract their vote until
he was 57 years old because only in 1957
women in colombia we could vote
ie we have no vote and 60 years
this she reminded me of every time
It takes me to vote with her because always
it took me another audacity that had my
great grandmother who was an incredible bold
it was learning to read and write because
like not having your political ideas and not
he read and wrote and he did it with
local newspaper of Medellin
at that time I was the viewer and
for me it fills me with pride and I
it’s a very exciting thing that
three generations later I have a
column in that newspaper in which already
he learned to read this is very important
because these are rights that we
we take for granted nowadays but each
right that women give for
sitting in reality is a testimony of
the effectiveness of feminism feminism
it’s a difficult subject to talk about because
many times we are denouncing
violence we are denouncing
exploitation
we are seeing cases like these that are
terrible and many times they are
discouraging because it is so lacking
so that we reach an equality of
gender
however there is one thing that to me
full of hope immensely and that
it comes from my family’s experience
and that is that 60 years we have achieved
so many things and all this we have
achieved without violence
What always excites me is that
feminism is the social revolution
peaceful, more effective and efficient
all the 20th century
however, we still have
resistance with feminism because it uses
because we have so much resistance with the
feminism that is something that has given us
so many things
what happens is that many inequality
Sometimes we do not see it and we are going to do it here
an exercise
our brain works if not this
it would not have shortcuts then associate
ideas images and concepts to have
shortcuts to think faster and many
sometimes in these shortcuts they get
prejudices
then let’s do an exercise
about how our brain works and
how do we think
I ‘m going to say a word to you and you
will be observed to see what the
image and how that image that first
social with that word do not have me to
answering out loud does not have to
answer the politically correct
just be honest and honest with
yourselves
by then the human word person
human already we take I imagine something if I do not
tell you can do here a trick of
conjurer I’m going to guess what
It was what most of us imagined
because we already know that we are all
equal these students imagine something else
but most imagined a body
of a man perhaps naked with the skin
white with short hair so
except here it has it to some and
others not to the majority yes
ok they imagined this and it does not seem very
problematic that a word like
human that was known
we must include all the
we associate with such a limited group with
some bodies so limited because
white men
the truth is they are a minority in Colombia
60% mestizos 25% white according to the
dane that I think we are less
Afro-Colombians 10% indigenous 3.4 in
Colombia to gypsies and men are
less than half of the population that is
white men how many men
targets in this scenario less than the
half live however the word
human is used to refer to them and
when we think of humans we think of
they who are here three here sitting
on stage already and that’s a problem
because this means that the world
everything has been thought and done to
these bodies and that bodies that do not
we look like the body of the glass
vinci then we are excluded from the world and
this is noticeable later in many things of the
daily life
for example the public space the
men can go freely through the
public space is a very thing
simple your clothes like your shoes
they are short
if it rains, there is no problem
all these decisions do not have to
do the blogger and so on
On the other hand, women go out for a walk
afraid of being harassed and the
women in bogotá
we do not have public space after
ten O’clock
for example feminicide one thing is
that a man is killed because he was robbed
or because I want your money or because
has a revenge or because it is a
soldier and then this entry into a
risk situation but it is that
we are killed for having a
sentimental relationship that’s what it is
feminicide or think about work
domestic
it turns out that most of the time
someone who does not get the bad note feels
who has to take care of children and
grandparents do not and they are not the ones who look after
children to grandparents usually
women and work schedules are
facts for people who do not have these
responsibilities
then the children come to the house to
four in the afternoon and someone has
to be there and not and that someone usually
be a woman and the women that we have
the privilege of not doing these tasks
domestic and care relegate it in
other women because it turns out that this
inequality tell us not to
this one but that is that we are different
we women are softer more
most beautiful maternal sensitive
better to listen to tata and with that
story have us doing 19 hours to the
more work week than men
as if caring was something that
had to do with the body of the
women not all responsibility
responsible for the care of others and
however there are we
We take care of this type of work and
was then what happens when you’re
inequalities happens that we are
leaving a workload that is
unjustified because in the end there is no
no feature that is
inherent to a genre
all those gender differences are
built of culture
for example this idea that men
are strong is that it is an idea that
It is also very well accepted , however
there are many women who are stronger
that many men for example Mary
isabel urrutia
the Colombian Olympic weightlifter
but what happens that these
stereotypes do not repeat it so many times
that begin to modify our
behaviors until we
we fit the mold to the women we
they say we have to be feminine but
the force turns out that it’s not feminine
then all of us are not going to
think twice before deciding
pepecistas there are more examples for example
there is one that fascinates me
said my great grandmother
it is assumed that the men of the bodies
of the strongest men not so
it turns out that there is no place in my
body that I can hit and I
fall on the floor crying
none but men with their
testicles summoned by life with
your genitals as well as
cyclist like horse riding see is
true that people who have
testicles have more bodies
vulnerable and yet we do not see
so suddenly dare heel of achilles not
it was a heel what
and I have another example for you this year
viewer according to interview with lady
quintana who is the champion’s sister
of the return to Spain of cycling
Colombian national hero not and then
they ask to the air quintana by his
childhood already says that she and her brother
I rode a discreet bicycle
they were lent by neighbors in exchange for
fruit and that when you go out to ride
bicycle to her her dad scolded her
with more vehemence here he and the
scolded you know why because dad
I thought that the bicycle saddle
I could ride it and ride it
bicycle was not something that the
ladies we will never know if lady
Quintana could have been a great
cyclist because she was told
that riding a bicycle was not a thing of
Misses exactly as catalina by
god and then there is another threat that we
they make it very strong and another thing that
they tell women not to be
and again
and is that they tell us not to be
feminists because if we are feminists
let’s be tough difficult ugly
odious and we’re going to be left alone
look at this advertising is a propaganda
of the beginning of the century in the United States
against the suffragists that are the
women who fought for the vote in
where I said no one wants me like that
that I think I will be a suffragist and you
and define what this does not remain
today and then you will think
that this is a superficial thing but
it turns out that again love does not have
nothing superficial is a problem of
survival because humans are
social beings and we need love not
we are that they want me they say to me
catalina you have to choose between having
rights or who love you I prefer
that they love me is a basic need
but what I come to tell you here to
you are not
this is a lie, you do not have to choose
between love and rights can
have the two is more already alumnado to me
Feminism is love friends community
Good love is the one in
conditions of equality
this is very important and among the
feminist communities that I have is
one of which I am very proud that
stereotyped stereotypes is a
faith project
same Latin American pop that we founded
with a great friend
Estefania Sails and is a project
multiformat what you are looking for
is to bring the great ideas of
feminism and translate them into a language
affordable where we use humor the
aesthetics of pop and new
technologies to spread these
stories and there is a very campaign
important thing that we did this year in
stereotypes that was called my first
thing my first consignment of two
junctures on April 24 in Mexico a
massive march in 25 cities in
where women took to the streets
to complain about gender violence and
to protest that I was going to lose
the violet spring like that was called the
first violet because it was in a
congress in brazil but there the
Brazilians told me that in October
of 2015
the feminist Julian farina had
done an exercise on twitter with the
hashtag that was my first one was given for
that Brazilian women will count their
first experiences of harassment and this
revolution or brazil and changed the
conversation but that was content
in Brazil because the barrier of
language this brings us
then from stereotyped one day
before the march is spring
violet we decided to throw my first thing
a day before the first tweet was the
mine and in one hour
we had 420 tweets per minute that
they were counting the women of all
Latin America
their experiences and something they will read
some my first harassment at seven
years a boy from my living room showed me
I accused his penis with the teacher and
he said of halo is he does not know what he does
my first thing was five years old and a
cousin older than me
sexually abused me my dad never
I believed it my first thing seven
years on the street appeared in front of me
unbuttoning his pants to
show me your penis
I ran out and did not tell anyone
how hard to write this tweet my
first with only 5 and stayed in family
because my father
He told me that I was a liar and
early
it still hurts me to count my first
thing how are you going to betray your family
when I was getting dressed to leave my father
I saw the buttocks and this is a map of
how the hashtag moved in the world
during this week
and these are some of the statistics
that we found and this is a very
strong because suddenly the morning the
violet spring everyone is
raised with some testimonies in their
social networks where there were some
abstract women and some statistics
that do not reach us but all women
of his life telling these experiences
of harassment and this is very strong because
when we realize that this has
passed to all
all the time all of life so
systematic systemic cross
structural every day of our
life to all women and since
we are very small because the most
chilling my first things that the
average is that it starts at age 8 and
40 percent of these episodes of
violence occur in safe places and
by known and many times the
woman, we do not count these things because
we feel that if we say it out loud
they will see us as if
we were damaged and they’re going to
point as victims but when we
we realize that we are all talking to each other or
something different and we understand that
it’s a structural problem and you can
demand an apple a public policy
my first thing was very nice because it was
a memory exercise
if I can not ask women
who report their current stalker because
do that many times he puts them in
danger of death but I from my place
as an adult you can do an exercise
memory to remember the first one and in
That road I remember all the harassment
of my life and every time women
he told his stories out loud they give him
to other women the tools for
recognize bullying in their lives and
call it by its name violence
my first harassment opened a conversation
that changed the way we
we perceive the harassment and this is very
important because I am a convinced
of conversations
look, there are many laws for
guarantee equality and in this has been
very much advanced and in fact the
constitution of 91 is great
the problem is that all these laws are
inapplicable
if we continue to have a society
track because we do not see the problem
then the change is not legal the change
it has to be cultural and the changes
They are cultural through
conversation because social struggles
starts with the ideas and I what
I want to invite you today to invite them
especially that we have this
conversation about feminisms that
it’s a rich exciting conversation
full of flats and full of drops
because there are so many feminisms as
women as women’s experiences there
in the world and it’s a conversation in
where we are in permanent ascent and
that’s the richest thing he has because that
makes feminism remain as a
vital conversation and then it ‘s the
invitation that I want to make you to
deliver to the conversation and that
let’s talk about feminisms
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