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?
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.
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