On July 31, 2018, Buenos Aires’s subway system was overtaken by a public intervention under the name “Operación Araña,” co-organized by Ni Una Menos - a feminist social movement focused on gender violence -, the Campaign for the Right to Legal, Safe, and Free Abortion, unionized metro workers, and more than seventy organizations, with the overall intention of affirming women’s autonomy and calling attention to several social issues with direct impact on their lives. This study weaves a series of reflections on some of the specific features of the Operación Araña intervention that can shed light on how and why the new feminist wave in Argentina has gained such momentum while gauging its impact on redefining what we understand as activism. Drawing from Judith Butler’s notions on the performative political potential of the assembly (Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly, 2015), this article unveils the various forms of embodied resistance staged in the public space by this new surge of activists, popularly called the “green tide” after the color identifying the Campaign for the Right to Legal, Safe, and Free Abortion. In claiming a unique and radical performative space wherein to exercise agency and display new forms of organization, the green tide also has by the same token laid claim to a reconfigured public space conducive to new forms of sociality and the preservation of all lives.
This essay examines the travels of the poetic speakers in two poetry collections: by the Argentinean writer Lila Zemborain, and by the Galician poet and critic Maria do Cebreiro, to postulate a revision of notions of belonging in its intersection with gender and space. Rasgado (2006) is a sort of poetic diary written by Lila Zemborain, who resides in New York, responding as both insider and outsider to the World Trade Center attacks on 11 September 2001. Maria do Cebreiro's book, Non son de aqui (2008) similarly follows the path of a nomadic speaker intent on redefining the terms o f her relationship to a physical space both alien and familiar. The purpose of this essay is to read these nomadic trajectories with an eye to unveiling how the speakers' negotiation of their sense of belonging to New York City or Galicia gener ates alternative, more dynamic ways of inhabiting gendered identity and space. Resumen Este ensayo examina los viajes de las hablantes en dos poemarios escritos por la escritora argentina Lila Zemborain y la poeta y crftica gallega Maria do Cebreiro para postular una revision de las nociones de pertenencia en su interseccion con el genero y el espacio. Rasgado (2006) es un diario poetico escrito por Lila Zemborain, extranjera residente en Nueva York, en respuesta al ataque a las Torres Gemelas el 11 de septiembre del 2001. Como el libro de Zemborain, Non son de aqui (2008) de Maria do Cebreiro, tambien sigue el trayecto de una hablante nomade preocupada por redefinir los terminos de su relacion con un espacio fi'sico simultaneamente familiar y extrano. El proposito de este ensayo es leer estas trayectorias nomades con vistas a develar como, al negociar su sentido de pertenencia a Nueva York o a Galicia, las hablantes generan formas alternativas y dinamicas de habitar el genero y el espacio.In a brief poem from the book Non son de aqui, by Galician poet Marfa do Cebreiro,1 the poet writes: 'nada temos / sen a conciencia exacta / de que sempre estaremosj / Personal Interview
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