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My experience with stereotypes

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Stereotypes and gender roles are discussion topics at the national level, and more than talking about what each one is about, I want to tell you a personal experience. I think I told them in a publication that I practiced basketball, there came a time when I was called to tests in the national team, but to go to them I had to miss classes, so together with my mom we went to ask for permission to the direction of my school, to avoid future problems, and his response was unusual:  "we can not give permission to go, only men have permission, women are not trained to practice sports professionally, if you want to do it you don´t have our support".   At that time I realized the large number of stereotypes that exist, clearly presented myself equally for the tests, no matter what they told me. How can we ask for a more just, egalitarian and equitable society, if from education we are not capable of demolishing stereotypes? That is why the latest mobilizations seem

A photograph and its story

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As I said in previous publications, I am a Catholic, and what I am going to talk about has a small relationship with that. In the image, we are my brothers (only the man is my blood brother, the girls are my best friends, but they are more than that, they are the sisters I choose) and me. The photo was taken for the pilgrimage of the Andes in 2017, the fourth for me, but the first for my brothers, that is the importance it has. In mid-August, I suggested that they accompany me on these 27 kilometers of walking, a tradition for me, that I wanted them to live, so that they would understand my love for her. By the way, they are Catholics, but the idea of ​​traveling those kilometers, under the sun, for a whole day, was not very pleasant for them. After much insistence I convinced them! Natalia, who is the youngest, was terrified, hates walking, and did not think she was capable, and that is why the image is so important to me. It may sound strange, but on that walk, we all learne

Abortion

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Abortion is a very complex issue for me, on the one hand, I have my religious ideas in which I defend life from conception to natural death, and on the other hand, I believe in he freedoms of people, and the importance of power deciding on our body. Since the hard discussion of the abortion law began in Chile, I have researched the subject, in order to have a defined position, and although I am catholic and defend life, I support abortion in 3 causal, controversial, I know, probably if it  were up to me, make the decision to perform an abortion or not, I would NOT do it, because I personally could not bear that burden. Regardless of the above, I believe fervently that you can not force someone to follow ideals in which you do not believe, no one can force a woman to have a child she does not want, because the rest do not consider it right, we are owners of our decisions and as such we have the right to choose. Although I don't like free abortion in its entirety, I prefer it