Fourrier

Saudação amistosa a todos os poliamorosos e sugestão veemente de que leiam Fourrier - assentar toda uma nova utopia e prática política e estatal na luta contra a monogamia, é obra:)

E ainda consegue elogiar enormemente a gula pelo caminho:)))

[por falar em gastrometafísicas e pluralidades amorosas: um orgulho, César Monteiro em "A Comédia de Deus"]

EXPERTS RELEASE GROUNDBREAKING PRINCIPLES ON SEXUAL ORIENTATION, GENDER IDENTITY, AND HUMAN RIGHTS

“Yogyakarta Principles” Call for Action Worldwide Against Discrimination and Abuse(New York, NY, March 26, 2007)- The Yogyakarta Principles on the Application of International Human Rights Law in Relation to Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity, released today by a group of 29 international human rights experts, is a collection of groundbreaking international legal principles on sexual orientation, gender identity, and international law that charts a way forward for both the United Nations and governments to ensure the universal reach of human rights protections.The Principles affirm binding legal standards with which all States must comply. They were adopted by a group of distinguished experts in international law following a meeting in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Among the group of experts are a former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, UN independent experts, current and former members of human rights treaty bodies, judges, academics and human rights defenders. “Human rights are for everyone, without reservation,” said Sonia Onufer Corrêa, a Research Associate at the Brazilian Interdisciplinary AIDS Association (ABIA), who co-chaired the experts’ group. “Yet women, men and persons whose sexuality does not conform with dominant norms face rape, torture, murder, violence, and abuse because of their sexual orientation or gender identity. These Principles affirm that human rights admit no exceptions.” Mauro Cabral, IGLHRC's Transgender/Intersex Program Associate participated at one of the 29 experts who developed the Yogyakarta Principles. "Contrary to the views of many governments around the world, established human rights principles are fully inclusive of sexual minorities, including lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people," said Paula Ettelbrick, Executive Director of the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission. "We are particularly satisfied that a range of issues related to gender identity were included in the statement of current human rights principles that must be enforced and protected." The Yogyakarta Principles call for action from the UN human rights system, national human rights institutions, non-governmental organisations, and others. They are being launched today at events coinciding with the UN Human Rights Council’s session in Geneva, where last year 54 States called for the Council to act against egregious violations of the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people. “UN human rights mechanisms have advocated full enjoyment of human rights and full inclusion of all persons in the development process, irrespective of sexual orientation, gender identity or other characteristics,” said Professor Vitit Muntarbhorn of Thailand, co-chair of the experts’ group. The Yogyakarta Principles are based on the positive development of international law and provide clarity for the needed actions in regard to sexual orientations and gender identity.” Professor Muntarbhorn is UN Special Rapporteur on the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea), and professor of law at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. “States have the primary obligation to respect, protect, and promote human rights,” said Professor Michael O’Flaherty of Ireland, a member of the UN Human Rights Committee, who served as rapporteur for the experts’ group. “Ending violence and abuse against people because of their sexual orientation or gender identity must become a global priority for governments.” Professor O’Flaherty is co-director of the Human Rights Law Centre and professor of applied human rights at Nottingham University in the UK. The Yogyakarta Principles address a broad range of human rights standards. They were developed in response to well-documented patterns of abuse targeted toward persons because of their actual or perceived sexual orientation and gender identity. Worldwide, human rights defenders point to violations including extrajudicial executions, violence and torture, repression of free speech and assembly, and discrimination in work, health, education, access to justice, and immigration. The full text of the “Yogyakarta Principles on the Application of International Human Rights Law in Relation to Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity” is available at: http://yogyakartaprinciples.org/ For further information:Chris Sidoti, Director, International Service for Human Rights: (+41) 79-518-2060 Philip Dayle, Director, International Commission of Jurists: (+41) 79-642-1871

(IGLHRC)

Lisboa queer friendly

Toca a sonhar uma Lisboa nossa!

E viva a net!

Haraway - Vídeo-conferência de Maio de 2006.

No tal Macba onde vão decorrer agora os PornStudies...

Homes de volta

Depois da desilusão de Terra de Mães e de Jack, Things You Should Know, de A. M. Homes (ex-guionista e produtora do L Word), é um regresso da autora à estranheza de todos e cada um de nós numa colectânea de contos imperdível.

E esta, hein?

Michael Cimino, mítico realizador do mítico O Caçador transitou para mulher e vive agora em Paris.

Aprender com os erros

A série L Word apresenta-se com uma muito maior diversidade étnica, de classe, corporal e de género. Palmas para a inclusão de lésbicas com problemas auditivos, de trans efectivamente em transição (e não de actrizes a fazerem de trans como muito aqui contestei), de latinas e afro, de militares, etc.

Também muito interessante a reflexão sobre a representação lésbica em cinema. Não tão bem o desbaratar da possibilidade de representar o poliamor.

(E sim, mantém-se um nível razoável de erotismo lésbico).

Porn Studies

Graças a um comentário aqui deixado tive conhecimento do seguinte, que aqui divulgo:

El próximo sábado 31 de marzo tendremos en Barcelona a Beatriz Preciado a las 22h y a la 1 de la madrugada, performance de Lydia Lunch: Pornographic memoirs. Sesión especial nocturna que se presenta como parte del seminario monográfico Porn Studies que tendrá lugar los días 28, 29 y 30 de marzo con Linda Williams. En el maldito Macba.