Propuesta para Casa Vecina Publicado en casavecina.com/cuidados-domesticos “¿Qué es este ser dividido, introducido en el lenguaje a través del género? Es un ser imposible, un ser que no existe, un chiste ontológico.” Monique Wittig En la constante necesidad de entendernos, de definirnos, de traducirnos en números y de mostrarnos en estadísticas, establecemos fronteras y creamos…
Presentado para el Concurso “Género y Justicia” edición 2015.
De la Subdirección de Equidad de Género de la Suprema Corte de Justicia.
Foto de Lorena Wolffer.
“Los estereotipos son verdades cansadas.” George Steiner
“No creo en la “violencia de género”, creo que el género mismo es la violencia, que las normas de masculinidad y feminidad, tal y como las conocemos, producen violencia.” Beatriz Preciado
Researching women’s access to the labor markets is a never-ending theme that seems to widen in a rhizomatic fashion where any question is followed by more questions that bring us back to the very beginning: which women? What work? What kind of access? Indonesia is the fourth most populous nation in the world after China,…
Introduction In October 2014 a news story went viral and created great controversy when a white lesbian couple from Ohio sued their sperm bank over a mistake with their chosen donor. The couple alleged the company erroneously gave them vials from an African-American donor instead of the white donor they had carefully chosen. This mistake,…
In his work Uncommon Ground: Toward Reinventing Nature, William Cronon presents the case of the old chemical weapons manufacturing center, the Rocky Mountain Arsenal in Denver, Colorado. This compound was used for 40 years to produce a long list of toxic substances: aldrin, dieldrin (and all the bad guys with an “in” or “ine” termination), mustard gas, napalm,…
The appeal to nature as naive reality is often linked to a second major cluster of ideas that surround this word: nature as moral imperative. One need not travel a very great distance in speaking of “the nature of x” to get from “this is the way x really is” to “this is way x…
-Orlando: Well. This is a little weird for us. -Mikael: Yes. -Orlando: I thought I was the only one. -Mikael: Yes. -Orlando: When did you get yours? -Mikael: 94. -Orlando: Ah… not so long ago. Where? -Mikael: In the Hospital Karolinska. -Orlando: I see… And… You did… -Mikael: The whole thing… yes… 94. Hmmm… I…
Beyond "he" and "she" 