Mariana Gómez, 25, who was assaulted by police while kissing her wife Rocío Girat at the Constitución subway station, will continue to face legal proceedings. This decision was made by the Criminal and Correctional Court of Appeals of the City of Buenos Aires.
For a feminism that includes everyone: lesbians, trans women, and trans people! No kiss is born straight. Stop the persecution of lesbians who fight for their rights. For our older lesbians. Dismissal of charges against Mariana Gómez. Justice for Diana Sacayán. These were some of the slogans of Lesbian Visibility Day, summarized in the document (see below) released on the 7th…
On Lesbian Visibility Day and with an anti-patriarchal football match - in which Nora Cortiñas, from Mothers of Plaza de Mayo Founding Line, participated - the Campaign for #AbsolutionForHigui was launched in front of the National Congress.
Go Girls! Convened and curated by the Go Girls! Comics Festival, the Lesbian Identities exhibition serves as a prelude to this specialized comics event, which will hold its second edition three days later, on Saturday, March 10. This same renewed interest in comics, reflected in the existence of…
What do we mean when we talk about lesbian visibility? Women from different generations share what visibility means to each of them today.
This will be the fifth #7M since the lesbian women's movement in Argentina began commemorating Lesbian Visibility Day on the anniversary of the murder of Natalia "La Pepa" Gaitán. There will be demonstrations in Constitución, Congreso, Florida, and Morón.
Opening photo: Sebastián Miquel By María Eugenia Ludueña A month before #8M, Marta Dillon sat in one of the courtrooms at Comodoro Py to testify in a trial for the kidnapping and disappearance of her mother, Marta Taboada. She was wearing a Ni Una Menos t-shirt – a movement that…
This morning, Mariana Gómez had her hearing at the Criminal and Correctional Court of Appeals in the City of Buenos Aires. Early on, activists and family members gathered at Viamonte 1147 to support the 25-year-old and her wife, Rocío Girat, both victims of police violence in an incident last October that resulted in Mariana's indictment and asset seizure for "resisting authority and assault."
The organizations Colectivo para la Diversidad (COPADI), 100% Diversidad y Derechos, the Asociación Pensamiento Penal, and the Public Defender's Office filed amicus curiae brief with the Sixth Chamber of the Court of Appeals. The Court must decide whether to grant the defense's request to dismiss the case against Mariana Gómez, who was prosecuted and had her assets seized for resisting authority and causing injuries, a decision made by Judge María Fontbona de Pombo.
On Tuesday, February 27, the Court of Appeals must decide in a public hearing whether to grant the defense's request to dismiss the case against Mariana Gómez, who is being prosecuted for resisting authority and causing injuries.
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