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Feminists Around the World: Lilián Abracinskas · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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  Speaker 2: he's a feminist around the world. We are talking about
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  Speaker 2: the iconic feminist activists. And y'all, I just figured out
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  Speaker 2: that I've been saying this country wrong my entire life,
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  Speaker 2: so it's an adjustment for myself. If I get it wrong,
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  Speaker 2: please don't yell at me. If y'all think it I'm
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  Speaker 2: trying to be snobbish. I promise you I'm not. But
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  Speaker 2: according to Forbo, who is not a sponsor at this
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  Speaker 2: point in time, I've been saying it completely wrong. But
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  Speaker 2: we're talking about the country of Uruguay, and I really
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  Speaker 2: hope I did that right. If I didn't, sorry, correct
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  Speaker 2: me nicely, pleased. But for today's feminists around the world,
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  Speaker 2: we are talking about Lillian Adrasinskas, and again, I hope
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  Speaker 2: I got that pronunciation right. Went through a lot of YouTube,
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  Speaker 2: really hard to find translation and pronunciation. If y'all know
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  Speaker 2: the pronunciation better, Again, correct me nicely, because I do
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  Speaker 2: want to know if I'm saying it wrong. But that
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  Speaker 2: will never stop us from talking about her amazing works.
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  Speaker 2: She has been a fixture in the Uruguay and feminist
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  Speaker 2: community and has been hard at work to change and
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  Speaker 2: continue to help the marginalized community in her country.
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  Speaker 1: Aversinskaz has worked to fight for sexual and reproductive rights
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  Speaker 1: in Uruguay for almost forty years now, and in nineteen
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  Speaker 1: ninety six she founded the major Salud Are Women and
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  Speaker 1: Health Uruguay, which focuses on working to fight and obtain
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  Speaker 1: sexual and reproductive rights. Here's some information from NYSU dot
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  Speaker 1: org dot uy. They work quote to exercise sexual and
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  Speaker 1: reproductive rights, each person must have the capacity and power
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  Speaker 1: to make free and informed decisions about their reproductive life
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  Speaker 1: and sexuality. And here's some more information from Globalfundwomen dot org.
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  Speaker 1: A grantee partner with MYSU, Moyer A Salude works in
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  Speaker 1: four areas monitoring communication, influencing policymakers, and training. And in
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  Speaker 1: that same article they quote Abrazinskas who says sexual and
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  Speaker 1: reproductive rights are the fundamental terrain for the struggle for rights,
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  Speaker 1: because once we've attained them, it's much easier to fight
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  Speaker 1: for economic autonomy, for educational autonomy, and labor rights and others.
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  Speaker 2: Right and that's something she and the organization has been
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  Speaker 2: pushing in order to keep fighting for autonomy. After legislation
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  Speaker 2: passed for abortion rights in twenty twelve. In Uruguay, MISU
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  Speaker 2: or YSU have worked fast to spread information on reproductive
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  Speaker 2: rights and have tried to increase awareness for the bigger
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  Speaker 2: picture in the country. In two thousand and seven, the
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  Speaker 2: organization started a watch group to report and monitor sexual
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  Speaker 2: and reproductive rights and needs. Here's another quote from the
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  Speaker 2: Global Fund for Women quote Muheri Salud began a watch
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  Speaker 2: group on gender and sexual and reproductive health to monitor
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  Speaker 2: birth control, birth and post natal services, domestic and sexual violence,
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  Speaker 2: sexually transmitted disease, abortion and services to teams to check
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  Speaker 2: how public policies and services are working. Along with research
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  Speaker 2: and monitoring, the group carries out regular surveys and research
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  Speaker 2: projects that provide important information for increasing the equality and
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  Speaker 2: coverage of public health services in the area.
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  Speaker 1: And After the passing the abortion law, which is still
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  Speaker 1: pretty restrict even with its whins, Miysu and Abrasiska's worked
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  Speaker 1: quickly to ensure that the law would remain in place
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  Speaker 1: when anti rights groups tried to have it repealed. In today,
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  Speaker 1: and much like the US, they are still having to
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  Speaker 1: battle to keep the rights they have been fighting to
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  Speaker 1: keep in place, as well as expanding. Abraziskas told Global
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  Speaker 1: Fund for US the issues of women's bodies, their freedom,
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  Speaker 1: their autonomy is a big part of the struggle for
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  Speaker 1: women's empowerment and emancipation in a patriarchal system. It's very
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  Speaker 1: difficult to recognize yourself as a full citizen if you
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  Speaker 1: can't make decisions about the most intimate parts of your life.
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  Speaker 1: She pointed out that oftentimes it is these rights and
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  Speaker 1: gender and sexual rights in general that are often quote
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  Speaker 1: sacrificed in political negotiations.
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  Speaker 2: Right, of course, her work with me Sue is not
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  Speaker 2: the only thing under her resume. Abersiinska is also as
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  Speaker 2: responsible for a many of things, including the National Observatory
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  Speaker 2: on Gender and SRH, which is the monitoring program to
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  Speaker 2: ensure that public policies and services contend continue to guarantee
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  Speaker 2: the ability the exercise of human rights. She founded the
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  Speaker 2: first alternative care for women's health. Also founded Gotti diando Muher,
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  Speaker 2: which was a Uruguayan feminist collective dedicated to the Uruguay
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  Speaker 2: and feminist movement and feminist political communication. She also represented
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  Speaker 2: social organizations such as the National Advisory Commission on Sexual
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  Speaker 2: and Reproductive Health of the Ministry of Health of Uruguay
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  Speaker 2: and the National Commission of Bioethics and Comprehensive Quality of Healthcare,
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  Speaker 2: as well as the National Commissions to Fight A's and
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  Speaker 2: was appointed to be a part of the Civil Society
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  Speaker 2: Task Force by the Secretary General of the United Nations
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  Speaker 2: in twenty eleven.
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  Speaker 1: And she has been hard at work with the MISSU
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  Speaker 1: or I've been saying NYSU whichever to continue to ensure gender,
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  Speaker 1: sexual and reproductive rights in Uruguay and all over the world.
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  Speaker 1: She recently spoke with a famous feminist in twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: two about the ongoing fight for justice and equal rights, saying,
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  Speaker 1: the fight never ends. We have to always be vigilant,
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  Speaker 1: and with the political changes that we have seen happen
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  Speaker 1: with different administrations here in the US and all over
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  Speaker 1: the world, including Uruguay, we know that we all have
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  Speaker 1: to be vigilant and continue to push and fight. When
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  Speaker 1: asked about the overturning of Roe v. Wade in the US,
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  Speaker 1: she said, ah, it's incredible. Really, nothing is written in stone.
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  Speaker 1: We still have to fight this forever and continues on.
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  Speaker 1: It reminds us that we cannot rely solely on the
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  Speaker 1: judiciary to guarantee our rights. The members of the court
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  Speaker 1: change and you lose your rights. We cannot have courts
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  Speaker 1: giving and then taking away rights like this. We need
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  Speaker 1: to change the social contract. Changes in law, yes, sure,
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  Speaker 1: but also changes in politics and power. These are bigger
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  Speaker 1: objectives of our fight.
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  Speaker 2: She even gave advice for us working to protect the
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  Speaker 2: reproductive rice in the US. She said, don't focus only
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  Speaker 2: on abortion. The political conditions for all of sexual and
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  Speaker 2: reproductive health for rights and justice and reproduction and sexuality
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  Speaker 2: more broadly are key road your work to engage in
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  Speaker 2: the political and economic justice debates in your country and
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  Speaker 2: mobilize that way. This has been one of our most
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  Speaker 2: successful strategies in our region. We have allied with social
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  Speaker 2: justice forces, the labor movement, the environmental movement, the students.
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  Speaker 2: I feel the abortion question has been too siloed in
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  Speaker 2: the US, too focused on abortion access, the technology themselves,
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  Speaker 2: like the pill. That's all fine, but it's too narrow.
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  Speaker 2: We need to reframe. Now what kind of world do
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  Speaker 2: we want? And Yeah, I think this is such a
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  Speaker 2: big conversation that we've been having about intersectionality and how
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  Speaker 2: important it is and the fact that yes, this is
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  Speaker 2: one good thing, but when we don't look at the
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  Speaker 2: bigger picture, that it doesn't affect. And we've talked about
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  Speaker 2: the battlement comes to the queer community as well as
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  Speaker 2: well as a feminist movement, and then as well as
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  Speaker 2: racial quality movements. There's so many conversations that we have
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  Speaker 2: to include. And she even goes into a whole conversation
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  Speaker 2: about turfs and how detrimental they were and how they
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  Speaker 2: are dangerous when they call themselves good feminists, and I
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  Speaker 2: was like, ooh, she's calling them out and I love it.
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  Speaker 2: But it's such a good conversation. I think she's so right,
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  Speaker 2: and she's been working at this for over fifty years
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  Speaker 2: and has been a huge part of what they've been
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  Speaker 2: doing and obviously still a big part of it and
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  Speaker 2: has been a part of it with un and all
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  Speaker 2: over the world. So good advice, I think.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, excellent advice. I agree, I agree, yes, And hopefully
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  Speaker 1: we did not butcher these pronunciations too badly.
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  Speaker 2: Forty years so something that just got destroyed in thirty seconds.
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  Speaker 1: But as always, as you said, that does if we're
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  Speaker 1: worried about the pronunciation, we don't want that to keep
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