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WHAT IS LSD?
The lesbian multidisciplinar project identified under the name LSD began
on February, the 14th 1993 in Madrid, and from then on it is the only project
in its field that exists in Spain. Our purpose in LSD has been to open up
a dinamic space of cultural and artistic creativity and sociopolitical debate
which allows and facilitates the articulation of the different day-to-day
manifestations and intellectual expressions with which lesbians women build
their identity and their processes of sociability. Besides, our aim has
always been to interfere in the material and symbolic context that traditionally
has repressed, hidden and hindered our lives since we question the rules
and powers that have built systems of hierarchy and social exclusion, systems
that have been particularly hostiles against women and lesbians. LSD has
to be understood as a critical project, a project of resistance and resignification
in the context of the latin and mediterranean culture we culturally and
geographically belong.
A lesbian project in which sexuality has meant a lot. We believe that sexuality
is a complex place from which we name experience and desire, the experience
and desire of lesbians searching for ways to say what we are and what we
want to become, outside the dominering heteropatriarchal symbolic order
that calls degenerates the women that have overcome many obstacles to conquer
the right to name and name themselves in their own terms in an original
way. A process that is achieved through the consciousness of our subordination
and denial and that seeks other sources of authority for our words, our
desires and our bodies...
LSD incorporates the thought and struggle of lesbians that articulate their
discourse from their bodies and their sexuality. A departure point for political
action within a larger social context. We incorporate lesbian feminism from
their origins to their most recent manifestations as queer, a theory that
articulates the struggle to rebel and resist the material and symbolic colonization
of our bodies speaking from sexuality itself, a sexuality that we understand
as an erotic practice and a political gesture.
A sexuality thus understood presents itself as a complex topography that
posits questions that put our action in order or disorder: how can we relate
an imaginary of the sexuality of lesbian women with a model or models of
interpretation of social relations and its history? How do we speak from
lesbian sexuality and eroticism?.How can we make of sexuality a place to
express and state dissidence and margins? Does political practice change
with love?. Does the love relationship define a female identity?. How political
action and the many different manifestations of lesbianism can lead to social
changes and transform this world dominated by hierarchies and a binary system?.
How a concrete lesbian practice can interfere in political economy, in the
values that regulate work, leisure and the money relationships?. These are
some of the questions we have posit to ourselves and that have enabled us
to develop a number of our works.
Artistic work: the private and public spaces in which lesbians and women
artists have left their marks.....proposals for political action: whose
material stems from individual and personal experience of repression in
the family, threats in the workplace, the silence of books, the humilliation
in the school or in the city, the ostracism in history, the violence in
the street, the symbolic non-existence.....Proposals for a sexual and political
action: artifacts created to be poured in the cauldron of collective fights
that enable us the right to live with pride, the day to day, political,
private and public fact of being a lesbian.
LSD is a nomadic project that changes in the process of naming itself as
the composition of the participants in their different projects changes.
A project can be carried out by a group, some groups or just one individual.
