this Thursday and Friday, in the city of La Plata takes place the first Congress of inclusive language organized jointly by UNLP and the Ombudsman of the province of Buenos “Aires.Al meeting, hosted in the Sergio Karakachoff building located on 48th Street between 6 and 7, was attended by both students and professionals.” It is a first experience that aims to discuss, debate and denounce because many women, transvestites, and dissidents say this language we invisibilizó for centuries. In Congress we will try to switch on just that construction of the language”, he expressed to Télam Karina Nazabal, organizer of the meeting, in charge of the Secretariat of policies of gender, childhood and Adolescence of the Ombudsman.
Guido Lorenzino, head of advocacy, was responsible for opening the event: “good morning to all, all and todes, is not usual greeting in me but warrants the frame and today all have to re – think us in many respects”, announced. Talks, debates and conferences that will cover “from the arroba intervening in writing to the todes”, are also involved as Secretary general Patricio Lorente UNLP authorities; the Assistant Secretary for human rights of the UNLP, Verónica Cruz; the Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, Ana Julia Ramírez; the defender of the people Deputy, Walter Martello, and Nazabal.
The Secretary general Llorente admitted that, personally, it costs the use of inclusive language but held “the questioning of the language” and added that “language is not what a group of academics decides that it is, but what the speakers speak and used”. Programme for Friday 12
