Sistema Regional de Información
en línea para Revistas Científicas de América Latina,
el Caribe, España y Portugal

Rocío Vera Santos es doctora en Sociología por la Universidad Libre de Berlín (FU) e investigadora asociada al Instituto de Estudios Latinoamericanos (LAI). Sus líneas de investigación son desigualdad social y afrodescendencia, racismo, discriminación, migración, convivialidad, violencia y estudios de género. Su primer libro Dinámicas de la negritud y africanidad. Construcciones de la afrodescendencia en Ecuador (2015) recibió el premio Isabel Tobar Guarderas en 2016 como mejor obra en Ciencias Sociales en Ecuador. Su segundo libro Entre el Atlántico y el Pacífico Negro. Afrodescendencia y regímenes de desigualdad en Sudamérica (2019), en coautoría con Manuel Góngora y Sérgio Costa, recibió por parte de la Asociación de Estudios Latinoamericanos el premio lasa Iberoamericano Book Award en 2021 como mejor obra en Ciencias Sociales y Humanas en Iberoamérica. Su proyecto de video Narrativas del Desarraigo (Erzählungen von Entwurzelung) con estudiantes del lai y jóvenes refugiados de Afganistán y Siria recibió el Premio del Público en 2018 por parte de la fu. Ha trabajado como profesora en la Universidad St. Gallen en Suiza, en el lai-fu-Berlín, Alice Salomon Hochschule, flacso-Ecuador y actualmente en la Paritätische Akademie Berlin.

This article analyzes how Latin American scholars and activists involved in second-wave or neofeminism built transnational networks from the mid-20th century to discuss women’s conditions in Latin America. It focuses on Woman and Society in the Americas, a symposium held in Tijuana, Mexico, as a pioneering space for dialogue between feminist movements from both the North and South of the continent. The study provides an integrated analysis of Latin American academic centers and Californian universities—such as the University of California, Irvine—which served as intellectual havens for migrant and exiled women during the Cold War and helped shape Latin American feminist thought from abroad. It argues that Tijuana, due to its border location and vibrant cultural dynamics, became a crucial node where local feminist agendas intersected with transnational debates, enriching regional perspectives through the lens of class, ethnicity, and nationality. The research draws on a wide range of sources: symposium documents (minutes, brochures, photographs, press), personal archives, feminist publications, and interviews that recover the memory of key participants. This approach enables a deeper understanding of the symposium’s impact on both local feminist activism and its broader continental projection, highlighting its historical significance and contemporary relevance.

This paper explores the organized practices of the feminist activism and the emergence of “emotional communities” in the university context. Drawing on qualitative fieldwork conducted between 2019 and 2020 during the takeover of some of the departments of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) by feminist collectives, we look at what happens e “backstage” in the practice of this activism. We explore how feminists not only used organizational methods to sustain the occupation of the unam but also generated spaces in which they could share the experiences of gender-based violence that triggered their activism in the first place. Overcoming a sense of victimhood, the students engaged in political actions to pressure the authorities, from a perspective that acknowledged the pain of others. This approached allowed them to critique of the institutional and sexist violence they experience. This article contributes to the growing field of studies on university feminist activism in dialogue with studies on emotions in socio-cultural analysis. It also presents an ethnographic account of practices that are less visible and powerful than what it is commonly understood as feminist action and mobilization.

This article analyzes the Grupo de la Mujer of the Taller de Investigaciones Teatrales (TIT). During the last civil-military dictatorship in Argentina, this group provided a space for alternative artistic training and creation that encouraged stage experimentation, within the framework of a theatrical tradition with few female directors. The text explores how these women, in times of political repression and conservative restoration, were able to access creation, a practice hegemonized by men. The hypothesis is that the Grupo de la Mujer resorted to androgyny in its theatrical productions through non-dualist sexual and gender performances. In this way, they put on stage their experience as women in dialogue with the readings of different generations of socialist feminism and with the small transnational networks of Trotskyist university sociability of the seventies. Methodologically, the article takes a qualitative approach to the use of in-depth interviews and analysis of archival documents (magazines, group publications, production scripts, photographs, etc.). In times of state terrorism, the women of the TIT pushed the limits of the “discreet revolution” and explored androgyny as a synthesis that is a unifying force in the fight against the patriarchy or capitalism.

This paper aims to analyze and systematize a series of written sources linked to presence at Argentine universities and La Plata University in the 1960s and 1970s. This objective is framed within the broader purpose of reconstructing women’s political and educational presence and experience at La Plata University e from 1965 to 1975. On that basis, we propose combining a study of the history of women and their political participation and the history of universities and their activism, all in the recent Argentine history.

Based on interviews with cisgender gay men living in Mérida, Yucatán, I examine the relation of risk policies, scientific discourses, and their sexual practices. Scientific evidence showing that reducing viral load to undetectable levels can prevent hiv transmission has significantly changed the prevention landscape. Consequently, the risk associated with condomless sex is no longer assessed in the same way as before. While the power-knowledge regime surrounding hiv and aids relies on continuously updated scientific knowledge, current risk policies still adopt a prescriptive approach to prevention. Gay men living with hiv in Mérida face the stigma of belonging to “at-risk groups”, leading to judgments about their sexual practices based on a moral code that holds them responsible for their own health and that of their partners. Moreover, their behavior aims to be regulated by an ethopolitics that has made condom use a norm. To understand risk policies from the perspective of these men, I explore five processes related to their experience of sexuality: 1) coming to terms with their sexual orientation; 2) assimilating their hiv diagnosis; 3) acquiring knowledge about hiv and aids; 4) choosing whether or not to disclose their diagnosis and 5) deciding whether or not to use condoms in their sexual practices. I conclude that gay men in Mérida view their pursuit of pleasure as legitimate and have developed an ethical framework that redefines the categories of the prevailing moral code. Decisions about disclosing their diagnosis and the use of condoms are negotiable, and based on the ethical principle that individuals are all responsible for their own health and body.

In this paper, I describe and conceptualize the restriction or freedom with which transgender people move through urban public spaces in response to unwanted reactions from other passers-by. I address the phenomenon from the 1990s to the early 2020s, in Greater Buenos Aires and the cities of San Luis and Villa Mercedes (San Luis province), Argentina. The study employs a qualitative methodology based on an inductive approach to data. To collect and produce data, I conducted semi-structured interviews and participant observations with transgender individuals. The results present three types of circulation of transgender people through urban public spaces related to unwanted reactions from other passers-by: restricted, conditioned, and free. Additionally, I analyze variations in these types of circulation and describe the processes that transgender people undergo to walk through the streets with relative freedom. In the final reflections, I emphasize the disadvantaged situation of transgender people in their ability to move freely through urban spaces, the cissexist nature of urban public space, but also its role in actively cisgendering subjects, as well as shifts in these configurations. The article contributes to our understanding of transgender people’s everyday lives and the relationship between urban public space and gender.

This article aims to analyze the relationships between technologies, gender and non-domestic cleaning work. Feminist studies of technology have identified how technology performs gender. The text shows how technology is co-constructed with gender in its relationship to work, revealing how gender identity, gender roles and the gendered division of labor are all part of the socio-technical system. Focusing on non-domestic cleaning work in Argentina, this study examines the relationship between technologies and gender, considering both feminized identities and the often-overlooked masculinized ones.  We also explore how male and female workers are linked to the technologies. used to optimize cleaning tasks and make them more efficient. A key finding is that the differentiated use of technologies explains the generalized division of non-domestic cleaning work and the reproduction of gendered power relations in the workplace.

Interview conducted on August 26, 2024 with the travesti artist and pedagogue, Personaje Personaje, born in Quito, Ecuador and based in Barcelona, ​​Spain. It addresses issues linked to travesti naming processes; trans migration from the Global South to Spain and Catalonia; childhood and travesti time; travesti genealogies in Latin America; and travesti writing in the contemporary publishing market. These themes are intended to be linked to the authorship projects of Personaje Personaje, which help to investigate her transvestite life and subjectivity, fundamental for feminist and sex-dissident dialogues today.

En la investigación se elaboró un filtrante de hojas enteras y molidas de Bidens pilosa L y determinó la capacidad antioxidante de la infusión de las hojas secadas a 40 °C, 50 °C y 60 °C, se prepararon infusiones evaluando cuatro tiempos de reposo: 2,5; 5,0; 10,0 y 12,5 minutos. La capacidad antiinflamatoria fue determinada en la infusión del filtrante mediante la técnica del edema auricular inducido por xileno. El contenido de polifenoles totales se determinó mediante el método Folin Ciocalteu, la capacidad antioxidante por los métodos DPPH y ABTS. Los resultados mostraron que el mayor contenido de polifenoles se obtuvo en hoja entera seca a 40 °C con un tiempo de reposo de 5 minutos (51,65 mg Eq ác. Gálico/g hoja seca) en comparación con hoja molida (filtrante) a las mismas condiciones (49,42 mg Eq ác. Gálico/g hoja seca). La capacidad antioxidante por DPPH y ABTS, fue mayor en la hoja entera seca a 40 °C con un tiempo de reposo de 5 minutos (93,78 y 92,20 mg Eq-Trolox/g hoja seca), superando a la hoja molida (filtrante) obtenida a las mismas condiciones (82,38 y 79,06 mg Eq-Trolox/g hoja seca, respectivamente). El filtrante tuvo efectos antiinflamatorios comparables a los controles positivos (dexametasona y diclofenaco). Además, el filtrante cumplió la normativa microbiológica y obtuvo valoraciones de “Me gusta” para todos los atributos evaluados. Se concluye que el filtrante es una fuente de compuestos antioxidantes cuya concentración depende de la temperatura de secado, el tiempo de reposo de infusión y el grado de subdivisión de las hojas y las interacciones entre estos factores.