Hi Rhonda! I was thinking about your concerns and how we could clarify some points.
I'm aware that it's is hard try to understand Bolsonaro election (and I'm not able to explain that), It was the worst election campaign that I have seen. Some people were arguing with family, coworkers, friends, I have heard about people have broken off their relationship with their relatives. There were also people that made a big effort to fight against fake news. A lot of people is still dealing with these questions. It is new situation for us and I hope that people from countries that have been living similar experience help us to deal with this question. I contacted LGBTQ+ groups from Curitiba and another cities to collect information to help us. In my opinion they can provide reliable information and they have a better point of view about these issues than me or any person who is not part of LGBTQ+ community. I asked them about how the Bolsonaro election could increase the violence against LGBTQ+ people and if they believe that we should consider cancel the conference here. I contacted 6 groups and 4 of them answered me, I provided to them all information about the DC19. There are some points below: -Since the end of election they don't have specific information about the increase of violence against LGBTQ+ group related to Bolsonaro election and his supporters. - The two groups from Curitiba told me that they believe that it is not necessary cancel the conference. The groups from another cities they said the same. - About the conference venue both of them believe that the location is not in a dangerous neighborhood. - Until now there's no security recommendation specify for LGBTQ+. Groups from Curitiba Marcela Prado Transgrupo http://transgrupotmp.blogspot.com/ The goal is to promote citizenship, health, education, public security, culture and defense of human rights for transgender people in Paraná state. Grupo Dignidade http://www.grupodignidade.org.br/ Encourage the free sexual orientation, identity and gender expression, as well human rights and citizenship for lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgender, transvestite, transsexual and interesex Groups from another cities https://www.abglt.org/ Brazilian association of lesbians, gays, bisexual, transvestite, trangender and intersex is an brazilian organization for promote action to ensure citizenship and human rights for LGBTs, contribuitint to build a democratic society, to fith against discrimination, coercion and violence about gender identity and sexual orientation. Grupo Pagu https://www.pagu.unicamp.br/ It is a study group about gender and gender violence from University of Campinas - UNICAMP. I'm talking with the groups from Curitiba to know if they could provide news until the date of the conference and about how we can work together for DC19. For sure, we will to keep in touch with them on the progress of this question. I would like to add one more subject, some weeks ago I sent a e-mail to Debian Women List and Diversity members with a pad link to collect some ideias. I proposed a meeting at FOSDEM to talk about how we can improve the activities for underrepresented groups in Debian Community. I think that we are living some changes and hard process in the world and we need to join efforts to work togheter to build a better place to live. I didn't received any answer yet, but I have faith people will help me. Best regards, Em qua, 12 de dez de 2018 às 21:36, Paulo Henrique Santana <pa...@phls.com.br> escreveu: > > > > > ---- On Wed, 12 Dec 2018 16:31:18 -0200 Paulo Henrique Santana > <pa...@phls.com.br> wrote ---- > > > > I think we missed the opportunity to show our empty... > > our empathy... > :-) > > ----- > Paulo Henrique de Lima Santana (phls) > Curitiba - Brasil > Debian Maintainer > Diretor do Instituto para Conservação de Tecnologias Livres > Membro da Comunidade Curitiba Livre > Site: http://www.phls.com.br > GNU/Linux user: 228719 GPG ID: 0443C450 > > Organizador da DebConf19 - Conferência Mundial de Desenvolvedores(as) Debian > Curitiba - 21 a 28 de julho de 2019 > http://debconf19.debconf.org > > > -- Adriana C. da Costa http://www.mulheres.eti.br
