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Research, political incidence and solidarityamong women:

body mapping violence and HIV in Bolivia

GraciaVioleta Ross

[email protected] 22nd, July 2012

Pre-Conference Satellite Session
mailto:[email protected]:[email protected]


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A survey with 322 women of the 3populations.

9 focus groups: 3 with each population.

Body mapping of violence and HIV. Wemapped the marks of violence in: the

body, the feelings and the

identity. Individual in-depth interviews with women of

the 3 populations.

Nine field-work researchers, three of each


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In mychildhood

I sufferedsexualviolenceand

everytime Iremember it is

painful


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Because

of so muchviolence,our feelingsare

destroyed


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They take

away ourright to bemothers


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Evenmyself, Itried to

kill mebecauseof thebad

treatmentofpeople,of the

society



They tellme I amgood to be

a slut,nothingelse



Bleedingbecauseof anal

rape



The barownerand the

pimp,force meto workwhen I

am withmymenses



I must paintmy face tolook ok to

others, but Iam not ok,my soul isdestroyed



* Abortioncaused bythe beating of

a preganantsex worker,by herpartner



These 3 groups of women suffer all forms of

violence, more than the average of women inBolivia. This might be related to their authomaticassociation with inmoral behaviors and withHIV/AIDS epidemic.

It seems like these women deserve to bepunished because they broke the norms ofpatriarchal societies.

In the survey, some of the women identified as

part of three groups simultaneously but not openly(stigma asocciated to HIV+ sex workers andtransgender women living with HIV).

But, the issue of violence has the potential of

getting together in the same table different



XimenaSalazar

(UPCH),YolandaCachicatari (ICMVVS La Paz),Laura Lara (ICTrans SantaCruz), Chantal

Cuellar (ICTrans

research, political incidence and solidarity among women body mapping violence and hiv in bolivia

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