We Had Rested On Our Laurels
LGTBI people have settled in because it seems that we have achieved a little bit of calm. We do not quite understand that things will never be good as long as there are still people and groups being persecuted.
Dear Insane Minds:
Nothing ago, as someone says, in fact, not even three weeks ago, in Barcelona the first LGTBI center of the city was inaugurated, a reference equipment and etc …
That I also tell you that we have been a bit full of gentlemen in all positions of responsibility, but we will talk about that another day if that, which is not anything new under the sun either.
Total, that not a week had passed since the inauguration of the equipment that has already been bandalized.
Painted with death threats, stones against the windows and “little things” like that. Well, well, well. The next day, spontaneously, the doors of the center were filled with post-its in support of the center and the collective.
Total, we have the center of discord here in motion.
Personally I have been little surprised by the attacks, what surprises me the most is the surprise at them.
What surprises me, too, is that the movement has been filled with pink capitalism, consumerism, glamor of normative bodies and much more partying than vindication of all that remains for us to do.
Long live the party, be clear, but not as a substitute for the other.
We quickly fall asleep on our laurels, in general, and LGTBI people are not the exception in terms of hedonism, it just lacked that, above all, we had to be better than anyone else.
Yes, a little more consciousness and historical memory could be expected from us , more than anything because we have lived what we have lived, but this is more a wish than a reality.
We rest on our laurels at the first change.
We think that everything is fine now because we in particular, our collective, our specificity, it seems that it has achieved a little bit of calm, a couple of laws here and there that can be dismantled in a country and a center where we can do things if we they leave those who rule in the center.
We do not quite understand that things will never be good as long as there are still people and groups being persecuted.
That the persecution is the same, that it is born from the same dynamics, from the same way of thinking, although it happens in different ways.
So it is not enough to solve “mine”, because what is mine is never just what is strictly mine.
A few weeks ago I moderated a dialogue with representatives of various cities. We were talking, or were talking, about the rise of the extreme right and how to deal with it.
Among the audience, Ismael Cortés raised his hand and told us: “we, the gypsy people, have been surviving in these conditions for centuries . And we are telling you, and you are not listening to us ”.
And yes, the thing is. So we will have to make a thought, as we say in Catalan, and put the batteries but really.
For the self, for the alien, for the common and for learning from each other and rolling up our sleeves and filling our hands with mud if we want to turn this heavy ship.
And we will have to do it among all the insane minds that are out there surviving, because it will take many, but many arms.
Happy week, Minds!
