The Minister of Women, Gender and Diversity, Ayelén Mazzina, said this Saturday during her visit to the province of Santiago del Estero, that “we are living in a time of anti-democratic, anti-equality, anti-feminist, anti-Peronist discourses, because it not only bothers them feminism but also Peronism bothers them”.
The national official integrated on the afternoon of this Saturday one of the forumstogether with the Minister of Justice and Human Rights of Santiago del Estero, Matilde O’Mill, the mayor of the capital, Norma Fuentes, at the Bicentennial Cultural Center (CCB), in the day “We Protagonists”in commemoration of International Women’s Dayin coordination with Nation under the campaign “We Move the World” and in Women’s Month, decreed by Governor Gerardo Zamora, whose motto for the 2023 edition is “We Protagonists”.
The day began in the morning with an open radio, the painting of a live mural, exhibitions and forums that deal with issues related to the rights of women and LGBTI+ people, economic independence, political participation, cultural transformation and the democratization of communication.
In the afternoon, it was the turn of Minister Mazzina to participate in the forum, which was also attended by the Governor Gerardo Zamoraamong other provincial officials and a large number of prominent women in different fields.
On this occasion, Mazzina maintained that “the people who are doing politics are living in quite hostile climates” and remarked that “they don’t want us to participate (youth and diversity) in politics, they don’t want us to take places, they don’t want us to take decisions in those places”.
“They don’t want us to participate (the youth and diversities) in politics, they don’t want us to take places, they don’t want us to make decisions in those places”Ayelen Mazzina
“We are living in a time of advancing in speeches, I am going to remove the word hate, for me they are not hate speech, they are anti-democratic, anti-equality, anti-feminist, anti-Peronist speeches, because not only feminism bothers them but also Peronism bothers them “, he emphasized.
Therefore, she asked “with great force” that “we remember how we got to these spaces and in these 40 years of uninterrupted democracy we do not lose the central axes, which are memory, truth and justice,” the official emphasized.
At the same time he said that “it has to be a year in which he finds us much more intertwined, with more strength and we know that the struggles are collective and that we do not get anywhere alone.”
“We are living in a rather hostile climate, women and gender diversity, collectives, dissidences, which have to do with political violence, digital violence and we must begin to put on the table what we have been seeing for a long time, care work , political violence and digital violence”, he considered.
“We are living in a rather hostile climate for women and gender diversities, groups, dissidents”Ayelen Mazzina
Therefore, he remarked that the way to counteract this from “youth and women” is “to do politics and think of a much more equal, more egalitarian, more participatory democracy.”
“You have to remember the 40 years of democracy, I was born in a democracy, I did not experience the processes, but there are many compañeras here who were part of that process, the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo, the former detainees, the mothers who have left a whole life in search of justice”, he remarked.
“So I start, as young people, from those very solid foundations that great protagonists of history left us, where today the youth can live a little more free, with a little more dignity and a little happier than those compañeras lived. “, he indicated.
Therefore, he considered that it is always important “Let’s appeal to have a bit of collective memory, so that as Argentines we don’t forget where we come from, what our roots are, and why we can be present today.”
In this way he urged “let us continue fighting for a much freer, more egalitarian society and always with social justice”.
Finally, he highlighted the laws achieved by the struggles of women and groups and at the same time congratulated Santiago del Estero “because it was the first province that had the parity law long before the national law and very recently I read some numbers and Santiago del Estero today it is the only province that has real parity and that deserves applause and recognition”.
