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Road to Guatemala a few months: Lesbian Feminist Encounter VIII Latin American and Caribbean

Spinning Rebeldías Lesbian Feminist from the Root

to be held from 9 to 13 October

Dear Feminist Lesbian!

"who said that all is lost ... I come to offer my heart, so much blood that was the river, I come to offer my heart ..."

We are on wheels !!!... us ... we offer our hearts, our proposals, our struggles and our desire so that together, we believe conditions will allow us to listen, share ideas, experiences and proposals, analyze and discuss, and build the next meeting lesbian feminist.

Ekipo Shaping Guatemala is an ongoing challenge that has called us to build in Guatemala, a space between lesbian feminists articulated autonomous, collective and organized many other single individual. It is a challenge too, because it calls us to recognize and acknowledge the different knowledge, experiences and proposals contain policies that we found in this process to realize the implementation of the next feminist lesbian.

start organizing this meeting has meaning recognize, recover and be enrolled in the history of generations of lesbian feminists who spoke from autonomy, radicalism and liberty. Place from which have impacted our consciences and where others have called to create other ways of thinking, acting, love and live from our independence, freedom and the sheer enjoyment we feel when taking back our bodies and our sexuality.

In this story we also recognize the opportunities for dialogue among lesbian feminist spaces that disobey the order, breaking into the neo-colonized everyday life, based on compulsory heterosexuality, deprivation of sexual and political freedom, racism, xenophobia, economic injustice, discrimination and systematic sexual violence, choking us and consumes us.

In this regard, we feed the Lesbian Feminist Encuentro VII in Chile, because it represented a milestone in this history, which allowed for a return and spinning our deepest desires of rebellion, radicalism and autonomy in our movement.

This autonomy, the need to recover a "room of her own" as lesbian feminists, to think, feel, express, recover the memory of our struggles, retrieve the word itself, the horizon itself, the link between us, the notion of our bodies and lesbian desire as constituting contempt of patriarchy. Since already explained that the purpose of this meeting stems from the radical. We were inspired to disobey any command and dare to put in the center of the debate our bodies, our sexuality, and build a life policy proposal and action to eradicate the powers that are exercised over them. This need and there will lead us to explain that our effort is not articulate about the ambiguous notion of sexual diversity, which among other things, our actions invisible as lesbian feminists. Therefore, do not discuss about the participation of trans in it.

What unites us in the process of organizing the VIII, "is not an identity but a political body." Recovering self-feminist approach, "part of our bodies are our political territories to be involved in processes of decolonization and warned that the settlement not only has to do with the presence of invading the lands of Abya Yala, but internalization master and his logical understanding of the world. "(An autonomous feminist statement, Meeting in Mexico, 2009)

Latin America and the Caribbean are facing an acute setting. Haiti and Honduras have been a dramatic example of this. It translates into a growing economic predation, sexual, social and cultural, driven from the large multinationals linked to local authorities, and exacerbated by patriarchal pacts through militarism, violence, racism and ruthless exploitation of the body women. It limits the possibility of living in harmony, rapidly depleting the resources that make life possible, which makes natural disasters no longer natural and hand made worse by "man." And all accompanied by an ideologically conservative and religious moralism promotes brutality against women's bodies, the destruction that leads to murder and femicide impunity.

For all these reasons, this meeting is yet another opportunity to reflect on this world-system and its impact on us lesbian feminists, and to define our own bets on the world we want.

For the effects on this world-system co-optation, institutionalization, depoliticization and splitting of the movement social, including the lesbian feminist movement, we hope that this meeting is self-managed as possible. We understand this as a meeting of the resources and capabilities that each can contribute to it, that does not waste resources, which does not contribute to the accumulation of capital, the management is done according to what is strictly necessary, its use of funds is transparent and accountable. The criteria for scholarships will respond to these principles as well.

In this regard, we call on starting to find their own resources, and generate local processes that contribute to the construction of political thought and a drive to provide us find politically.

Finally, to transform this world into a truly different for us, we hope that this meeting and any preparation, can be a process of building political pacts, from ethics, respect and recognition between us.

From there, we take up the proposal of Audre Lorde on the power of the erotic able to articulate, from the enjoyment, be it physical, emotional, spiritual, or intellectual, all moments of life, debate , discussion of political reflection and artistic expression in this meeting, therefore, "can give us the energy to strive for genuine changes in our world. We promise not to establish as appropriate, in the false, the conventionally expected. "

Sean lesbian feminists welcome !!!... This meeting is for all!.

Ekipo Guate
Lesbian Feminist Encounter VIII