Every day #LOTTOMARZO – ARCIGAY Women's Network
Sseven women symbol of activism LGBT*QIPA+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans*, queer, intersex, pansexual, asexual, other subjectivities) and more, are the protagonists of the social campaign promoted by the ARCIGAY Women's Network to reiterate that the fight against gender violence, discrimination and ableism is a daily commitment. They are Hande Kader, Audre Lorde, Marsha P. Johnson, Marcella Di Folco, Marielle Franco, Mariasilvia Spolato and Stella Young and their lives – often forgotten – speak of self-determination, r-esistance and rebellion against imposed norms andthe price you pay for freedom.
GLOBAL TRANSFEMINIST STRIKE: WE ARE HERE
For us, March 8th is a day of protest and struggle, in which our bodies unite with those of our comrades from Non Una di Meno and all those who identify with the political platform of the global transfeminist strike.
The global transfeminist strike is a mobilization that calls us to action, demanding much more than just principled adhesion. In a historical moment like this, when women and LGBTQIPA+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans*, queer, intersex, pansexual, asexual, and other) individuals are once again under siege, we cannot be passive spectators; we must mobilize to share intersectional practices of resistance.
Feeling part of the transfeminist tide that will cross the streets, occupy the squares, invade the workplaces and healthcare facilities and adhering to the strike methods foreseen, means reiterating that violence against women and LGBT*QIPA+-phobia have the same root/matrix in the patriarchal culture based on’heteronormativityà and on gender binarism. And act accordingly to question heterosexuality.à compulsory, imposed social roles, the derivatives of toxic masculinity, the rigid family models based exclusively on the couple, means defending the right to self-determination over bodies against the pathologizations and psychiatrizations imposed on trans and intersex people and fighting ableism which discriminates against differently abled people, but toWe also support the fight for the right to an unconditional European residence permit, rejecting all forms of racist and institutional violence against migrants.
Feeling part of the transfeminist tide means rejecting violent and mystifying narratives that speak of "gender ideology," denouncing our difficulties in promoting sexual and emotional education programs, about differences and consent in schools.
For us, striking against gender and genders means rebelling against binary stereotyping but also questioning male privilege and the misogyny of our own community by distancing ourselves from exclusionary and discriminatory positions towards trans* women (TERFs) and sex workers (SWERFs).
For us, striking from productive and reproductive work means rebelling against imposed motherhood by defending the right to free, safe, and affordable abortion, putting the right to desire and pleasure back at the center, but also distinguishing between parenthood and motherhood, rejecting any form of overdetermination of women.
Our community knows the violence that forces you to run away from home, that keeps you blackmailed at work, the violence of the stigma acted on our orientations, on our non-conforming bodies, on our non-binary identities, on our families not fully recognized and protected, on our non-normed relationships.
We feel on our skin the perception of “minus” which has to do with being womana, lesbian, bisexual, trans*, queer, intersex, sex worker, disabled person and migrant.
Precisely for this reason, to those who think they can put women and LGBT*QIPA+ subjects “in their place”, we respond that on #LOTTOMARZO we will all be there at the GLOBAL TRANSFEMINIST STRIKE, not one less.
ARCIGAY – WOMEN'S NETWORK
