#8M The best photos from an afternoon of celebration and feminist protest

From Plaza de Mayo towards Congress, the march is tight, slow, and powerful. In this feminist strike that mobilized half a million people in Buenos Aires alone, dissident women, lesbians, trans people, and transvestites made their voices heard and felt.

March 9, 2018

Photos: Ariel Gutraich. From Plaza de Mayo towards Congress, the march is tight, slow, and powerful. In this feminist strike that mobilized half a million people in Buenos Aires alone, dissident, bisexual, lesbian, trans, and travesti women made their voices heard and felt.

Stop the violence against dissident bodies

Stop criminalizing us for defending ourselves: we demand the acquittal of Higui, attacked for being a lesbian, imprisoned for defending herself, and freed by the feminist movement and lesbian activism. Acquittal now! We demand the dismissal of charges against Mariana Gómez, persecuted and arrested for kissing in public. We demand the dismissal of charges against the lesbian and bisexual activists from various organizations who were arrested and imprisoned in the days leading up to last year's strike and during the protests against pension reform and the arrival of the World Trade Organization in Buenos Aires. Stop criminalizing protest. Down with Bullrich's LGBTTTI protocol. The rights won by LGBTQ+ people are human rights that concern all of society. We don't need special treatment, we demand humane treatment. We demand the full implementation of the gender identity law throughout the country: real access to the right to comprehensive healthcare, to expedited legal gender recognition, and to respect for one's own identity. We demand the protection of transgender children from violence, pathologization, and harassment in schools and healthcare facilities. For the integrity and respect of intersex bodies, we say no! to compulsive surgeries that seek a normality that is only oppression and repression. For the integrity and respect of fat, pathologized, and stigmatized bodies. says part of the document read at the end of the march, in front of Congress.

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