Young Migrants and the Construction of Desire in Popular Feminism

Abstract

The women’s rights movement installed abortion as violence against women and sex educationas a historical social and political demand in Argentina. Recently, thousands among the youngergenerations have engaged in activism, starring in what the media has called “the revolution of thedaughters” (Peker 2018). To understand how the diversity of young women inhabit the rolesassigned to them, it is necessary to unravel adult-centric or mainstream representations presenteven within the feminist movement (Elizalde and Valdés 2021).The workshop was one of the instances of a two-year collaborative ethnography that I developedbefore and during the pandemic with rural youth, women, and men from Paraguay, and residentsof poor neighborhoods in Buenos Aires. As a queer and feminist student from Argentina I applied Participatory Action Research methods and considered feminist theories that seek to change or eliminate social oppression.