Quinta dia 16 de Abril, às 21:30, a Lóbula realiza a sua primeira apresentação pública do projecto Arquivo Queer no Mob - espaço associativo.

Exibiremos o primeiro testemunho do Arquivo Queer, o do Sérgio Vitorino das Panteras Rosa, e estrearemos o segundo testemunho, o de Lara Crespo e Eduarda Santos, do Grupo Transexual Portugal. Contaremos com xs intervenientes nos respectivos testemunhos para conversas informais respectivas a cada vídeo.

Esperamos contar convosco neste momento de partilha e de criação de memória colectiva!
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Sobre o projecto:

O Arquivo Queer consiste numa série de vídeo-testemunhos autobiográficos e críticos sobre a experiência LGBT contemporânea. Procuramos com esta iniciativa estimular e consolidar uma memória colectiva activa e presente dos nossos quotidianos, das nossas lutas e lutos, dos nossos afectos e actos, das estruturas de poder que nos oprimem e dos actos de resistência que nos alimentam. Com esse fim, convidamos uma série de figuras mais e menos proeminentes dentro do movimento - activistas, académic*s, artistas, e quem mais calhe e queira - a falar-nos um pouco das suas próprias trajectórias enquanto sujeitos trans* e/ou queer, para contribuir para um novo processo de visibilidade quanto a como temos vivido as nossas identidades.

Nota: Estas tratam-se, assumidamente, de intervenções muito pessoais que podem tocar em experiências e matérias que algumas pessoas considerarão mais sensíveis e mais difíceis de abordar. Pedimos que atentem a essa dimensão dos vídeos e esperamos não ofender a sensibilidade de ninguém com os mesmos.

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As portas do MOB abrem pelas 21h00 e a apresentação arrancará pelas 21h30.

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Washington state House approves ban on conversion therapy for LGBT youth
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