The programme of activities “Dones*: juntes i diverses” [Women*: together and diverse] continues. Below is a summary of the main events taking place over the coming weeks. You can follow them online via the YouTube channel.
History, memory and vindication are the core themes of the LGBTI Centre programme. We begin the month discovering Señoras que se empotraron hace mucho (4 May), a work by Cristina Domènech about numerous women who have rebelled against the established norms of their times to express their sexuality.
The programme also features films. The first film to be screened will be Ni d’Eve, ni d’Adam, une histoire intersexe, the weekend of 8 and 9 May. This film tells the story of two intersex people who help each other to accept themselves just as they are.
17 May sees the celebration of The International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia. In addition to all the activities being prepared by entities across the city, the LGBTI Centre will be organising the round table “Aliances BiBolleres: Visibilitzant violències, generant espais de sororitat i resistència” [Bi-Lesbian Alliances: Raising the visibility of violence, generating spaces of sisterhood and resistance]. The meeting will bring together a number of bisexual and lesbian activists. The aim is to give greater visibility to bi-phobic violence, share experiences and discuss practices that can heal rifts and establish meeting points from the perspective of diversity.
A few days later, on 25 May, the focus will shift to our rights over our own bodies. With the help of various experts and activists, we will be discussing the over-medicalisation and pathologisation of women’s* life processes.
There will also be room for historical documentaries this May. The weekend of 22 and 23 May, we’ll be bringing you The archivettes, which looks back at the foundation of the Lesbian Herstory Archives in Brooklyn in the 1940s.
Finally, on 27 May, we will be welcoming Eva Abril and Gracia Trujillo. They are the authors of Maternidades cuir, a work that explores new ways of forming families and raising children.