#8M The struggle was and is transvestite, trans, feminist
By Ro Ferrer * I made these drawings because I think it's very important to remember that feminism in Argentina has been intersectional and horizontal for decades. Even with internal differences, fundamental advances in rights and freedoms have been achieved. There is still much to be won; and we need to understand that we need unity to face a common enemy (the patriarchal system,…
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I made these drawings because I think it's very important to remember that feminism in Argentina has been intersectional and horizontal for decades. Even with internal differences, fundamental advances in rights and freedoms have been achieved. There's still a long way to go; and understanding that we need unity to face a common enemy (the patriarchal, capitalist, and clerical system) is essential to moving forward.
Feminist memory should bring us closer to different realities, to consensus, and to making visible ALL struggles . I don't think it's right to go out and "kill" our comrades either. Even though I strongly believe they're making the wrong arguments.
I think that in other countries the transfeminist struggle may be different from what we have here, and that's why perhaps the power that Lohana Berkins , Maite Amaya , Diana Sacayán gave us isn't understood... or why we walk the streets arm in arm, women, non-binary people, transvestites, trans people, lesbians... racialized, discriminated against, or silenced by economic, class, origin, and gender inequality.
To deny that all the identities I mentioned are victims of male violence, with many points in common and others specific to each struggle, is to deny the possibility of living free in a system that oppresses, locates, controls and defines.
I don't believe inclusive language will silence us. On the contrary, we are building it collectively with a specific purpose: to make all realities visible. But to think that the subject of feminism is woman, and that woman is defined according to her genitalia, is to perpetuate a patriarchal mechanism . I hope we can build a system to eradicate all forms of violence. The demand is political, the struggle is cultural, and the way to confront it (for me) is collectively.
*Ro Ferrer is a feminist illustrator.
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