The INVISIBILITATS cycle, which has been on since May, is coming to its end, having brought visibility to all the realities so often ignored, unnoticed or made invisible within the LGBTI collective itself.
We shall be featuring a presentation on 5 July, at 6 pm of Ana Pastor’s book #Chandaleras , a body-sports-political device for subverting the patriarchal order through the pursuit of sport. The book, from a feminist perspective, analyses the influence that sport has had on gender and, on the other hand, shows how body and gender dissidence can revitalise the traditional concepts of sport we already know.
Taking part in the presentation will be Ana Pastor, a researcher in the intersections between sport, gender and body, and the creator of the @mundadeportiva project Irene Sala i Brotons, the editor of the magazine Parole de Queer and scriptwriter of the comic Super Bollo contra la L.E.F.A (both projects in collaboration with Marían Torres)
Face-to-face activity. Free admission but places are limited. Interpretation in Catalan sign language.
We’ll be continuing the week with a fanzine workshop on 6 July, from 5 pm to 8 pm aimed at young people between the ages of 13 and 17 and run by Letoxi, a fanzine contributor, illustrator, workshop leader, creative and all rounder. A proposal aimed at highlighting the stories of dissidence from experience itself. Dissidences grow without references or seeing how they are caricatured and turned into secondary or evil characters. The lack of references can make you think their stories aren’t worth our attention. This workshop will work with subjectivity in highlighting stories themselves.
Free workshop subject to prior registration from inscripcions@centrelgtbibcn.org
LIMITED PLACES!
7 July, at 8 pm: a presentation in collaboration with Teatre Tantarantana, and as part of the Grec Festival, of Hermafrodites a cavall o la rebel·lió del desig a play from the Que no salga de aquí collective that talks of first-person experiences of intersexualities. It uses documentary theatre, performance, science-fiction stories and freak shows to tackle the issue and proposes the foundation of a new order, far removed from the rigidly binary systems we have inherited.
As the event comes to an end there will be a colloquium with members of the Que no salga de aquí collective.
Activity with admission price. Tickets available from here
12 July, at 6 pm: we’ll be having the cycle’s last round table, entitled Lletres oblidades: B, I, N/B, A .
Even though the initials LGBTIQA+ contain various dissident identities, not all have the same visibility, whether inside or outside the collective itself. We know what some of these initials represent but do we know the reality of non-binary, intersexual, asexual or bisexual people? Activists from these forgotten initials will be carrying out an exercise in reflection, awareness-raising and alliance-seeking.
Taking part in the round table will be Bàrbara Argemí, a bisexual activist; the I de intersex collective, of intersex and feminist activists; Bru Madrenas Martínez, historian, educator, teacher in gender studies and policies and author of Transgresorxs and Clara Morató–Aragonés, psychologist and asexual activist, a member of the Catalan Association of Asexuals.
Moderating the table will be Ana Sández, an (L)GBTIQ(A)+ activist, psychologist and educator interested in preventing violence and in psycho-educational dissemination.
Face-to-face activity. Free admission but places are limited. Interpretation in Catalan sign language.
The activities programme for the INVISIBILITATS cycle ends on 14 July at 6 pm with the screening of Negra , a documentary by Medhin Tewolde that tells of the director’s exploration in search of other women of African descent in Mexico.
“I was seven years old when someone called me ‘black’ in the street. I turned around to see who they were addressing and realised it was mi. That day I knew I was black and all the laughing around me made me think it was maybe not a good thing… Had that only happened to me or to other women too?”, asks the director.
Five women tell their stories sharing the racism they experienced but also their processes of resistance and self-acceptance.
There will be a colloquium after the screening, with Heidi Ramírez, a video editor and student of photography resident in Barcelona. Her work focuses on self-portraits as a representation-protest mechanism and also with the most sensory for experiencing other dynamics in audio-visual creation.
You’ve got until 29 July to visit the exhibitions “D’embarassos, maternatges i masculinitats” (photographs on representations of lesbian motherhoods and masculinities) ; “Desbiada” (graphic installation on biphobia) and “Diàlegs intergeneracionals” (Audio-visual courses with activities from several generations).