Weaving memories: the organization of lesbian women in El Salvador

Abstract

This article aims to describe the processes of organization of lesbian women from post-war 1993 to 2017, analyzing the contributions and tensions with the Salvadoran feminism, the movement of sexual diversity and the women’s movement in general. The actions that in some way mark the political-sexual agenda of lesbian women’s organizations in El Salvador in the last 20 years will also be made explicit. Through metaphors of agriculture, from land preparing to harvest, the article narrated the processes of organization of lesbian women that began in the post-war period, became visible in the 2000s and diversified in the decade of 2010.