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## Researchers at the UJI show the potential of social gatherings as a tool to fight love and gender stereotypes A project developed by lecturer Andrea Francisco Department of Education

03/07/2013 |
Rosana Sanahuja Sanahuja

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Under the name "El banquete de Safo", researchers at the Universitat Jaume I have carried out a project of social gatherings among lesbian and bisexual women in which they have addressed the issues of love and attraction models. The project aims to see if these meetings helped them to improve the ability to build more egalitarian relationships and deal with the discourse of love present in the media. The lecturer of the Department of Education of the UJI Andrea Francisco highlights how this experience has helped participants to address the tensions generated by having social and affective experiences different from the traditional discourses of love produced by the power and the media.

The study involved two groups of social gatherings in Barcelona, ​​which counted with a total of 20 women. The researcher points out that these meetings “have shown that women empower ourselves before the media discourse of love in a patriarchal and heteronormative society, and generate knowledge about building egalitarian relationships based on aspects such as commitment, mutual respect, trust, solidarity networks, critical reflection and self-esteem”.

When analyzing media discourses on romantic love, the researcher stresses that participants had the opportunity to reflect critically on myths like the “better half”, the prince and the princess, passionate love, or "happily ever after". In this sense, she highlights that the lesbian or bisexual women that participated in the meetings were not against romantic love or couple relationships, but against relationships of inequality and stereotypes generated by the majority speech on love in the patriarchal society that is perpetuated by the media.

The groups also revealed common experiences, suchas having suffered personal and social invisibility. In this sense, the participants pointed to the lack of lesbian fiction stories in the media and the lack of references in society. "When we appear, it is in a very stereotypical way: very sexualized lesbian characters built to enjoy males’ gaze that do not question heteronormativity. And if there are characters who transgress roles and gender identity, as in the case of displaying a masculine appearance, they are demonized”, states Andrea Francisco.

The gatherings also revealed how gender roles had affected their lives and their process of identity and acceptance. "We realized that in our first relationships we often reproduced gender roles: some had social attitudes attributed to the masculine, and the other, to the feminine. But it is precisely the experience outside heteronormativity what has enabled us to go beyond a dichotomy gender vision”, says the researcher.

Thus, the talks became a space of transformation, empowerment and learning reported by Andrea Francisco in her doctoral thesis " El banquete de Safo: una tertulia sobre los discursos mediáticos del amor con mujeres lesbianas y bisexuales," that has been direted by Joan Traver, Eloisa Nos and Maria Lozano and was defended the past 15 February at the UJI. After the good results attained in this first stage, the project will continue with new gatherings in Valencia.

More information: [www.elbanquetedesafo.org](http://www.elbanquetedesafo.org/)

Video "El banquete de Safo": <http://vimeo.com/60086833>

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