Photos: Ariel Gutraich © Agencia Presentes

"Our pride is transfeminist, grassroots, South American, and from the slums," with that slogan, Villa 31 commemorated the second trans-slum LGBTTIQ+ Pride March. The march was organized by Diversidad Trans Villera and the Villa 31-31 BIS Feminist Assembly.

We share a chronicle of the march in photos and the document that was read.

"The feminist assembly of Villa 31 and 31 bis was born two years ago as a cry of outrage when we learned of the patriarchal injustice that freed Lucía Pérez's murderers and the first international strike of women and gender non-conforming people was brewing. That rage also resonated in Villa 31, and we wrote a chapter of our history: neighbors, residents of the slums, leaders of organizations, precarious workers, women, Indigenous women, trans women, South Americans, trans women, migrants, Black women, lesbians, women with disabilities, mothers in charge of all caregiving and economic support, we gathered at the Güemes soccer field. The circle became an embrace, and the voices became the Feminist Assembly."

«Our Assembly is yet another experience among the many that our people have created to resist crises and organize against injustice. It grows in the warmth of the community kitchens that feed neighbors in times when there's nothing to put on the plates of working-class families; it is sustained by the embrace of the gender promoters who support women and their children in situations of gender-based violence; it grows in the rebellion of the organization of our trans, travesti, and lesbian sisters who know that heteronormativity kills! It is part of a collective strategy like the ones we put together when we play ball, against the patriarchy that wants us off the field; it cares for us like the community health promoters in the neighborhood. Every day we build care networks in our neighborhood, giving our time and effort, training ourselves, fighting so that everyone knows that what they call love is unpaid labor, and that the City Government must take responsibility!

«With feminist and grassroots organizing, we mobilize to demand justice for the femicides and transfemicides in the slums!, those that don't appear in the news: for Jania, a victim of state abandonment, an anonymous trans comrade on the lists of those who died from COVID-19, for Michu, a trans comrade from our sister slum of Barracas, for Daiana, for Liliana, for Florencia and for all of them!«.

“In this meeting, through listening, we built a collective diagnosis, a map of the injustices of an urban development that doesn't take us into account, that doesn't solve the housing problem for women, lesbians, transvestites, and trans people. We denounce an urban development that doesn't consider that in this city, more than 65% of the transvestite and trans population lives in rented rooms (hotels, boarding houses, licensed or occupied houses). An urban development that doesn't take into account that in the more than 4,400 low-income neighborhoods in Argentina, 93.5% don't have formal access to the drinking water network, and 85% of the affected households are supported exclusively by women. An urban development that indebts, dispossesses, and evicts cannot be the only solution; we need housing policies with a feminist perspective!”

"We are united in sisterhood and we are building feminist and popular power, here in our neighborhood, in this little Latin America.
We are the Feminist Assembly, PROUD OF THE SECOND PLURINATIONAL TRANS PRIDE MARCH IN THE VILLAGES!"