The children’s revolution is already a state issu

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On October 27, the presidential elections generated a political change. But, in addition to the pulse of the economy, the thread and unity, there is a great social factor in the push for change: feminisms and sexual diversity. And that change, in a literal and singular sense, but also collective, can be named as a revolution of the children, in inclusive language and with all that inclusion means as a living and diverse language.

On October 30 - 36 years after the first democratic elections after the military dictatorship - President-elect Alberto Fernández put on his cap: Brian Gallo, the 27-year-old kid who was discriminated against on social media when he showed his image as president of the table, in Moreno, with comments of the style "do not carry things of value" and they branded him as a kid. The comments show the prejudice for his cap, his sports jacket and his age, but, above all, racism for being morocho.

If Argentina knows about inclusive language, it is long before using the “e” so that the crack does not cease to be only in the ballots but also in the multiple and democratic genres, identities and desires. Proud to be "black head" or "shirtless" was a way of discouraging the prejudice of those who did not come from the ships but from the slaves brought from Africa and the native peoples.

During the management of the macrismo a good part of what will become official again sat down to wait for another opportunity at the polls. Feminisms and sexual diversity no. The streets were taken on June 3, 2015, with the call for Una Una Una, and the first women's strike took place - while we were saying “The CGT drinks tea, women the street” - on October 19, 2016.

The women's strike was not symbolic, brought political results and a new agenda in unions, with greater demands for licenses to care for sons and daughters, to be able to perform fertilization treatments and take days to report gender violence.

Trade union deputies such as Vanessa Silley, General Secretary of the Federation of Judicial Workers' Unions and Claudia Ormaechea, Gender Secretary of La Bancaria and elected deputy in the Province of Buenos Aires, both by the Front of All, are an example of the results of the alliance between the unionists and feminisms.

 

But, very centrally, feminist demands drove the demands and participation of adolescents and youth. The girls went from the exclusion of places of power to become 15 percent of the driving of the Buenos Aires student centers. And, without a doubt, Ofelia Fernández, the youngest legislator (for the City of Buenos Aires) in the country is a leadership (which draws attention in international newspapers) and was exacerbated in a profile of María Sánchez Díez in The Washington Post, where he resembles the US Democratic legislator for New York, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, 30.

Alexandria was compared by Donald Trump with Evita. And she responded by claiming the figure of Eva Perón. They also criticize Alexandria and Ophelia for videos or photos of them dancing (as if being legislators would take away the possibility of moving or force them to age in a conservative way as punishment for doing politics) and neither of them stays nor still, nor quiet.

Ophelia's first student political decision was to oppose gender violence by professors of her school endorsed by the unions and the university leadership. At age 16 he became President of the Carlos Pellegrini Student Center. He took the demands of Ni One Less and took them further. He denounced the abuse and gender violence of teachers and teachers who had been ranked by the UBA. And he faced university leadership and protected trade unionists, until then, by union impunity to justify machismo.

In addition, in the National Congress, he defended the legalization of abortion during the debate on the Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy Act, where he said: “The only thing greater than the love of freedom is the hatred of those who take it away from you” .

The revolution of the daughters speaks of a political phenomenon that, in various ways, influenced the electoral results with an emerging case such as Ophelia and with a politicized vote, outside the control of the indoctrination of the great media, with political awareness learned in alternative or self-managed media and with an exercise of mobilization and intellectual curiosity inspired by the Women's Encounters, the fight for legal abortion and Comprehensive Sex Education.

The revolution of the daughters refers to the young, but not in a derogatory sense, similar to the soccer idea of "our children", but quite the opposite: being a daughter is not a minimizing or subordinate connotation; but it enhances a political tradition of intergenerational driving.