Be present. People with disabilities, feminisms and political action

Abstract

In this article I propose a dialogic meeting between perspectives of the feminist movement and the collective of people with disabilities. The text outlines two analytical movements: first, it places the premises “lo personal es político” and “poner el cuerpo” in relation to political action in the public space of the collective of people with disabilities; and second, it addresses the slogan “nada sobre nosotros sin nosotros” in relation to the spaces and forms of action of the feminist movement. Two ethnographic situations experienced by the author in the course of her fieldwork in the cities of Montevideo and Buenos Aires, are taken as material for the development of the article.