Friday, May 28, 2010

Spanish Wedding Vocabulary

of perception and other human errors




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everyone knows the plot, trite before, that the reality is somewhat different from what we see but from there to discover, as sometimes happens, that both do not look like anything, there is a long hallway with amazement. "How could I believe that ...", what would lead me to think my ... ".

How can a man wrongly perceive the reality around him and thus wrong decisions or actions?. Yeah, okay ... I'm talking about me and not a friend or a distant relative :-) but I say this thinking that all we ever misjudged someone or thought, again erroneously, that the girl in the front row, that do not stop looking for excuses in class to ask for the notes, this coladita for us. "Macaco presumptuous, then whipped us," how could you think that instead of understanding as she was new and strange in your city or just looking to make friends, and, above all, how did you end up declaring yourself that way, ignoring all other possibilities, assuming a simple perception, assuming that reality is so casually clung to your wishes? "

Confirm that we are wrong, that what we saw, we played and we felt actually had no color or touch-expected and much less-a feeling akin to ours, as in the twisted paths of love and desire, can discover how far we, particularly we are easy prey self-deception to believe what we believe and ignore the rest.

said Locke in the seventeenth century that the reality is often colored by the emotions. Color?, God blessed!, Is much more than that!, The entire stained!, The reality is a mixture of erroneous measurements of misperceptions!, Misunderstandings and disagreements, of truths that escape. Told me my quantum physics professor with 21 years I have not accepted, what is measured is affected by the meter, the result of the inference of the observer, the truth of the views of its creator.

Still, with all its faults, our perception is all we have, the only way to measure. And it must be measured. To do otherwise is like being blind and walking without shaking hands ahead or a cane. So try it, say, confess, touch, kiss, experience and, ultimately, make use of the wrong perception because only then get closer to the truth even if it hurts.

And as for the error in the perception ... well, there is no reason punished, is not it, to err is inherent in human beings is closely linked to the freedom we have, to the tremendous and sometimes overwhelming freedom cherish no other animals that makes us so special, and sometimes so unhappy. And all is well from birth: I try, I try, I'm wrong, I admit (or not!), I correct myself (if I can, if you want) and start again. It's a cycle that punishes our self-esteem if not managed well emotionally and makes us continually improve if we get something clear. Understand and cope with the frustration of mistakes should be the first thing taught in schools long before the natural numbers or letters of the alphabet that make up the words with which I write, I've used since childhood to describe what I perceive.

Saturday, May 22, 2010

Some Beautiful French Words

There is nothing to fear



experiment, sometimes like everyone else once, I guess, what would you know that today will be the last day of my life. I'm going to work driving my motorcycle and one of those trucks coming down like mad from the landfill of Garraf miss a give way, sending me directly to paradise or hell, or nihilism more vacuous.

It feels strange, but mostly it frustrating because if I had known, had been able to even guess that today would be, now it only today and never tomorrow, there are so many things I wanted to do, say, write ... Suddenly the future does not exist, someone (a reckless driver, an unfortunate slip) or somewhat (by chance, the default destination), we stole it. As the murderer who plays Clint Eastwood in Unforgiven : "When you kill a man, takes away not only what it is but all you could become."

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immediately after the frustration that plagues you to understand that, if today your last day, you can no longer carry out all we had wanted, it comes to your mind a simple question which in turn costs a lot answer: "Why the heck I have not done so far?". Why leave for a final lament for the second before our life expires, the list that suddenly seems endless to-do?, Why not start now, now, to say what they think, what I feel , to live naturally, to perceive and feel things like an animal, a multicellular organism, but to enjoy it as just a human being can do?. And if you think it is a single answer, a barrier transparent but solid stopping us, and that border, that few make it across, is fear. Individual fear, fear of the pack, fear that surrounds us, fear of what we have inside, fear of the unknown, the familiar surprise and disappoint us, afraid to be afraid.

And when the barrier falls and the fear disappears, as it is possible to imagine that happening in that final moment where you suddenly discover that everything will end, as happens to the protagonist of American Beauty a second before the barrel of that gun you press the neck, then, too late already understand there is only one thing worse than dying, and is living in fear.

So let your children climb that tree, little real risk of falling can never match the pleasure emotional experience when adults remember the perspective of the park and the neighborhood of his childhood as seen from there up among the branches and leaves. And riding a motorcycle, took this view of the road if you place, because if both want to regret not having experienced it when I reach the fateful day before you did.
And if the truck rolls you finally, trust, remember, that even him, with all its tons of weight, you take away the miles lived.

Monday, May 17, 2010

Edmonton Men Brazilian



Interview Andrea Lacombe made us and that was published in Highlights CLAM

Lesmadres The group launched its website the booklet "Maternity lesbian", intended to provide information, experiences and views own "what it means to be lesbians who become lesbian moms with their partners in Argentina.

Lesmadres is a political action group composed of families of lesbian mothers and mothers who have decided to have children as a couple. Their claims are intended to recognize the political, social, cultural and legal rights of children, their families and themselves as lesbians. Its members work "to ensure respect for all differences with the intention of promoting a society free of gender inequality and class." As activists want to "create families without authoritarianism and violence from a leftist political conception that [they] enable the utopia imagined close to building a world free. "

CLAM Gemetro spoke with Florence and Gabriela Bacin, two researchers, PhD students in Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Buenos Aires-UBA-and members of lesmadres.

How did the idea for this booklet?
Lesmadres During training, to begin to outline our goals, we note that the lack of information was a problem common to all lesbian mothers as they carry out our maternity hospitals. This and other booklets in which we work, legal, health and education, are intended to address that problem. In this way we try to systematize the information, socialize and share it with the intention of making the path easier for everyone.

How has receiving the booklet and the website? How they have been released?
The reception was excellent and helped to increase the number of attendees at group meetings. Many girls write to us and tell us about the advantages of starting the process of lesbian motherhood as more accurate information and thoughts. It was also well received by other organizations that have contributed to its dissemination through its website. The booklet was successful among professionals in education and health. We know there are teachers in tertiary and university levels incorporated it into their classes and is being used to disseminate information among some sectors of public health.
With regard to the distribution at this time is virtual only because we have not got funds to do so in print. That limits a bit arrival at sectors or areas without access to technology. In addition, the booklet is "copyleft" and encouraged to reproduce and use if not used for profit.

In his writings you point out that while both members of the couple may be considered mothers, there is a difference which gives his body to gestate or legally set as mother.
A distinguished name is sometimes necessary, particularly in reproductive processes assisted pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum. Then the real differences are due to the lack of legal recognition, social and political. However, this difference does not affect the ability, desire and the possibility of maternal much as you would any other person willing to do so. It should then create names, terms, finally, we need the language here that there is only silence. In this work we focus lately.


How experience the difference?
These experiences depend on each and every family. The shared experience generally comes from a reality check-out legal. In Argentina, the co-maternity is not legal counterpart. This also links with other derivatives such as uncles and grandparents. This has several consequences. In principle, biological mothers are not empowered to make legal decisions concerning the care, attention and support of their children. Nor can incorporate / as to your insurance or apply for days at work when they get sick or become liable to a medical intervention. The link between biological mothers and their children depends on informal arrangements and are therefore unprotected / as in case of death or disability of the birth mother. In any case, there are economic rights or hereditary. To the separation of the couple's biological mother can not apply for child support or involvement of the other mother in the upbringing of children. The other mother has guaranteed the continuity of the relationship with their children. Not considered the right to joint custody. Is guaranteed even visitation.

In the booklet you explain the particularity of artificial insemination with anonymous donor to other options. They describe it as "a chance to explain the emergence of an alternative family and wanted from their 'home'." What concerns this expression?
Our intention is not simply provide information. We also aim to distort prejudice that often preclude the completion of a nontraditional family. Before making visible and public debate on the lack of recognition of our families are critical to our familiar conceptions based on the absence of a "source" familiar or failure to make a story about the origin. If no parent what their origin? Were some of the questions we did. Surprisingly these criticisms came from sectors not only the right but from some on the left. Thus, we felt necessary to explain that we co-motherhood is an advantage just because of that. On the one hand, think positively co-motherhood was a way to visualize and reclaim our families exclusively composed by lesbian mothers. On the other hand, the reference to "source" enabled us to reflect on the constructed nature of any "source". That is, there is only a story, or several, of the origin. We propose our own and positively connote. This is how we also say that there is no way to be lesbian mothers, but many. Each possibility has advantages and disadvantages according to each person. The choice is personal or couple. In short, what was interesting was that we co-motherhood makes visible the notion of family as a space and linking material, historical and cultural, and provides a framework for thinking about new stories from the desire, sincerity and affection. However, what we propose as one of many possible ways.


How does the situation of lesbian maternity hospitals in different parts of Argentina?
The information booklet is national. In fact, some of us are in the Greater Buenos Aires and the Province of Santa Fe also have contact with girls from different provinces of the country. However, in most provincial access to fertility treatments more expensive and restricted, as these services tend to concentrate in the City of Buenos Aires, and even more so for lesbians who are often denied us care. Another drawback is the less visible. Some contexts are more hostile to unconventional sexualities and, consequently, our needs and demands as lesbians. This contributes to the promotion of discrimination and violence becoming unsafe areas for access and the realization of reproductive technologies. In this context, many women are obliged to travel to the City of Buenos Aires where there are centers large, lower costs and a range of services aimed at "women alone."


What are their political demands and how they articulate with the LGBT movement?
At this time, the agenda of demands of the LGBT movement in general, is focused on obtaining a marriage. This inevitably affects us but do not focus our claims in this lawsuit, but in recognition of the link with our sons and daughters and of them and they with us. This would mean, for example, legal recognition of nonbiological mothers. The mother is not pregnant can directly recognize his daughter in the civil register, but then there are no situations of everyday discrimination. Our children are here, attend school, are treated in public hospitals and public networks remain affected. We are not asking permission or authorization to build their families but are demanding recognition of our rights.