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SEXUAL INSURGENCY MANIFESTO
We feminist lesbians struggle for
democracy and development based on a sexual and reproductive revolution that
brings an end to heterosexuality as the only form of practicing sexuality,
guaranteeing corporal, sexual and reproductive autonomy and pleasure as the
goal of sexuality. We struggle for
family reorganization that will break with traditional gender roles; with the
patriarchal system; and with violence as a mechanism of control, subordination
and expropriation of our bodies, our sexuality and our pleasure.
To achieve this, we must not only
have freedoms, rights, equality, fairness, and civil and political justice, we
must also have economic, social and cultural justice. We must do away with
“development” based on the hierarchical and exclusionary sexual division of
labor defined by the dualisms of productive/reproductive and
public/private. We must do away with
violence as the foundation for social relations based on domination and
subordination. We do not accept the use
of “love” as a cultural tool of alienation that negates our citizenship and
individuality.
We are against the depredation and
privatization of our natural resources: our biodiversity, our water, our
minerals, our ocean and our forests.
We need to construct a new woman
along with a lesbian feminist ethic based on solidarity, consensus and kindness
that does not betray or plunder and that redistributes our resources through
the State, the market and the family.
We demand the celebration of
maternity and social responsibility, along with the right to abortion and
public services guaranteeing comprehensive education against discrimination,
violence and all forms of abuse of power.
We call for the termination of
hegemonic systems of power, the termination of the armed forces and
police. In their place we support more
funding for education, health services and the justice system.
We do not
accept social control through the penal system or traditional morality. Instead, we demand public security, housing,
and unemployment insurance.
We struggle against transnational
and national capital interests that base investment upon huge surpluses and the
exploitation of women and men, resulting in prostitution, sexual exploitation
and trafficking of women, lesbians, gays and trans.
We demand policies whereby men will
repay their historical debt to us and to society, and will peacefully leave
aside power, abuse and violence.
We women are dying, and because we
live in a dictatorship of sexism, misogyny and lesbophobia, we have the right
to legitimate self-defense and insurgency.
We will take to the streets and renounce cooking without pay or caring
for children without social support, and we renounce having sex without
pleasure or having children against our will. We are committed to fill all
public space with colors, images and love, to kiss with pride, to play soccer
or any other sport that we want to, in addition to taking leadership in the
direction of state politics, political parties and our lives.
We are creating
the conditions for all women to assume their identity and to find well-being on
their own terms.
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