Corona Chronicles Feminismos from Ecuador
Channel: RosaluxEuropa
Date: 06/08/2020

Coronavirus is affecting everyone and transforming our daily lives. Although the long-term effects of the epidemic are not yet clear, its impact is already being felt in all areas of society. In particular, the effects on women's lives and LGTBI people are even more evident in relation to the increase in violence, the multiplication of the care workload, economic and housing vulnerability, among others.

This is an opportunity to open and deepen debates on a variety of topics: austerity policies, health systems, international trade policies, political power structures and global economic processes, food systems and the construction of alternatives. Above all, the situation raises questions around our understanding of solidarity and responsibility. In this internationalist initiative of chronicles about the pandemic - "Corona Chronicles" -, our allies in different countries share their experiences.

This special series of Corona Chronicles from the perspective of feminisms in Latin America narrates the experience of the pandemic from the standpoint of women and LGTBI people, focusing on the specific problems and alternatives of different countries, emphasizing the economy of care and reproductive work, debt, violence, new conservatism, among other phenomena that we have to face.

We carry out this work from the Latin America Feminisms program of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, which seeks to strengthen the dialogues between feminist and LGTBI organizations in the region, and promote regional debates that promote the demands and reflections from different expressions of the feminist movement.

Patricia Yallico, Waranka People. Quito, Ecuador.  Asociación de Creadores de Cine y Audiovisual de Pueblos y Nacionalidades - ACAPANA. (Association of Film and Audiovisual Creators of Peoples and Nationalities)