Quito, Ecuador. March 12, 2010.
still remember it well, very well ... It was a Sunday in elections in 2006. We cansadxs that we are not taken into account and others however, if a job appropriated varixs was that we were not even appoint ... If that were cansadxs and adult centrism LGBT officers in Bogota, but not create, or imagine, or to act ... so we met Catherine, Edward, Elizabeth, Laura, Marla and I ... and said it is time to change ... and has since been joined by all the comrades who have wanted ... muchxs also have been ... we walked, we sang, we wrote, we danced, we read, we have drawn, we have found and Desencontro ... and we become, we always transform.
What has happened to that Sunday, March 12, 2006 to Friday March 12, 2010, is worth mentioning in a night of drinking ... and it is also worth mentioning in the pages of a book they remind us how important it is to think beyond unx and make a policy proposal.
We have many things to teach, but we recognize that four years, we are still unxs "buses" as they say here, and we still have much to learn. It seems that sometimes the most important social organizations were to survive, appearing in a directory phone, but not to act or think, or propose, or even criticize anything ... Four years have passed and still, often in tow, but we ... thinking about what young, educational, cultural, political ... continue to create and continue with the assurance that we do not want a telephone directory is the only memory that is made of nosotrxs.
have faith in these times is a rare thing ... no wonder, when the politicking, fraud, bureaucracy, economic crisis, natural disasters, social uncertainties, the null solidarity, non-existent possibility of resolving conflicts in other ways than with patriarchal and sexist violence that both criticize (one that annihilates difference otrx overrides, suspicion of the new, retains the power structures that allow only speak algunxs and otrxs shut up and obey, that never lets acknowledge the work of others ...), the frustration with the infighting, that instead of creating just wears out and ends with the intention of working ... (face it, further work in this context, without completing the list is a pretext for the typical "forget it") but for nosotrxs faith is what has sustained us: faith in a world different and faith in people. We still believe in us; in our ideas, projects ... decided to continue believing in the future, and a future that is more like our dreams.
We have many thanks, that feed the faith that sustains us: first who have been with us and accompany us from different parts of the world, sending much good energy and many good ideas ... Mujeres Al Borde, for teaching us to be activists and be the school for more than half of vegan fundadorxs of this dream, to those who believe in our madness, they support us and drive us: the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice ... to Colombia Diversa you for your support and patience with our organizational disorder, to all organizations and people that have had the opportunity to share and exchange experiences. Finally TR4NSGÉN3RO Project, which is teaching and reminding us once again what is and what is a social organization, to take up the dreams and not forgetting the people, not to be afraid of being generosxs to be clearer and our profundxs intentions and political discourse, to move forward in spite of adversity ...
There are even more special thanks: to whom write to us begging us to turn to appear on a magical literary canelazo ... whom they insult us, because they remind us that there is still much to do ... for those who have tried to plagiarize our work, because we show that it is excellent, valuable and you have to use it ... for those who did not believe in us; it led us to look to who if they did, who they are fighting over a name, because he reminded us that's not why we started our work ...
Thanks, thank you, because that is what has made FEEL DIFFERENT CLASS, a survivor organization and willing to fight ...
is why I can say, yes, if it is a HAPPY BIRTHDAY and we expect four more years!
With much hope,
Gabrielle Esteban
Coordinadorx CSD
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