Allison and Kelly studied far from Melo, Cerro Largo, where they were born. A few years ago upon graduating they returned to work there and they reconnected with their city in a new way: they wanted to create networks with others to build a community free from...
Interviews
A story of transformation
San Gregorio de Polanco is a small city, located in the north of Uruguay, in the department of Tacuarembó. Lorena has always lived there, with her sons and daughters. Three years ago she joined a group of women and she never imagined how that network would transform...
Make a difference
Nicolle’s grandmother taught her an important lesson at a very young age: “You can be whatever you want to be, the only thing I ask of you, is that you make a difference.” That push led her to study, to not be intimidated, to meet other activists, and to become a...
Register me! The union for women workers in family homes celebrates its 60-year anniversary
SinPeCaF is the Union for Domestic Workers in Family Homes in Córdoba (Argentina). They recently turned 60, while celebrating ten years of a historic law: the Special Regime of Employment Contract for Domestic Workers. We talked with them about how the organisation...
Paritaristas del fin del mundo: a story about the struggle for equality
When we conducted the interview that gave rise to this article, the era of political and social paradigm change, which has been underway since December 2023, had not yet begun in Argentina. In the current scenario, in which rights that were believed to have been...
How much longer will they have to wait for the justice that has been denied for so long? Forced sterilisations, an enormous outstanding case in Peru
We asked Vero Ferrari to write about AMPAEF (Association of Peruvian Women Affected by Forced Sterilisations), a national organisation of women who suffered first-hand, and to this day live with the consequences of, a public policy that violated their physical...
Abofem: deconstructing the law by listening and using a gender perspective
Earlier this winter, we spoke with members of Abofem Argentina, an organisation that aims to deconstruct the legal system, incorporate a culture of listening along with a gender perspective in professional practices and in the court house corridors. We spoke about...
YoNoFui: Prison is no place to live
From a poetry workshop to a civil association, a cooperative, arts, political and skills training workshops and a series of support and self-reflection projects, such as a mental health area and legal advice area, a publishing house and an audiovisual work collective....
“The reproduction of life is also the grounds for the construction of affectivity”
Silvia Federici is a sociologist and philosopher, teacher and feminist activist. Fondo de Mujeres del Sur invited her to talk about the importance of popular feminisms and the power of the collective as a practice and political perspective. We were left with a...