SESSION “Places of heterocissexual dissidence in Iberoamerica and the gender twist”

ORGANIZER/S: Luciana Moreira, Centro de Estudos Sociais, University of Coimbra, Portugal [log in to unmask]. Eduarda Ferreira, Centro Interdisciplinar de Ciências Sociais, Nova University of Lisbon, Portugal. [log in to unmask]

CFP: In the Ibero-American space, legal and political, but also cultural, changes achieved by feminist and/or LGBT claims, are undeniable. Democratic achievements on both sides of the Atlantic are usually heirs of the feminist and LGBT struggles that have often begun under repressive political regimes. According to Gloria Anzaldúa or María Lugones, among others, structures of colonial domination continue to oppress in our days at the economic and epistemic level, particularly in discourses about gender and/or sexuality. Patriarchy and heterocisnormativity are still pervasive. Latin America perpetuates somehow the legacy of Iberian colonial and patriarchal forces that have silenced other ethnicities, other social models and other possibilities of living gender and/or sexuality. In this section, we would like to discuss the places of sexual and gender dissident people throughout the struggles for rights in the Ibero-American spaces. What has been the role of social movements around feminist and/or LGTB claims? What role do institutions such as the United Nations, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights or the European Union play with regard to ongoing legal changes? Is there an exchange between the Ibero-American space regarding the claims for the rights of women and sexual or gender dissident people? What role do gender or ethnicity play in these claims and these achievements? Is gender an element that restricts access to certain spaces, whether public or private, work or leisure? Is there a real space for the intersection of struggles with respect to sexuality, gender identity and / or ethnic group? This section welcomes presentations on a specific country or comparative cases on the various issues raised regarding the Ibero-American spaces.

CFP deadline April 10th 

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