Superhéroes de nuestro presente
Este proyecto se sumerge en la intimidad de la crianza de Amarú, un niño de cinco años criado por dos madres lesbianas, en un contexto de extrema vulnerabilidad dentro de un barrio popular de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Las identidades disidentes siguen sufriendo el estigma de la sociedad en las distintas esferas de la vida cotidiana. Milagros y Vanesa son madres de Amarú y construyen esta familia resistiendo a las múltiples violencias que atraviesan su contexto e identidad. Abrazadas en redes comunitarias que genera su barrio y el feminismo deciden criar a su hijo con principios nuevos, resignificando la violencia que atravesó sus propias historias de vida y permitiendo a su hijo crecer con menos estereotipos impuestos.
Amarú es una pequeña conquista de libertad. Simboliza el esfuerzo de sus madres para que existan infancias más libres.
Amarú es cuestionar lo aprendido, es la curiosidad sin miedos y es, ante todo, el dolor que se transforma en amor.
The Superheroes of Our Present
This ongoing project immerses itself in the intimacy of Amarú’s upbringing, a five-year-old boy raised by two lesbian mothers in a context of extreme vulnerability within a slum in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In a political and social moment marked by despair and a rollback of rights for the LGBTIQ+ community, the project explores the creation of a micro-utopia amid social adversity.
Argentina is experiencing a critical moment regarding social rights, with state policies that imply a significant regression, particularly for sexual dissidence. At the same time, hate speech and lesbophobic attacks are on the rise. Milagros and Vanesa, Amarú’s mothers, are building a home that challenges established norms, resisting the multiple forms of violence and prejudice that affect their identities and social context. Since their childhood, their life stories have been marked by economic and housing precarity, as well as lesbophobic violence and sexual assault.
Supported by the community networks created within their neighborhood and by feminist movements, they decided to raise their son with new principles, resignifying the violence they experienced in their own lives and allowing Amarú to grow up with fewer imposed stereotypes. Amarú becomes a symbol of a possible future; a testimony to his mothers' efforts to create freer childhoods. Amarú is about questioning what has been learned, about fearless curiosity, and, above all, about the transformation of pain into love.
