No one should be judged for asking about a desaparecido in democracy Video-creación en juntanza

Abstract

What interventions are a crime? Can justice, in a state of law, prosecute a person for creating graffiti in a public space without violating the right to social protests? You can't, but that's what has happened in the city of Necochea (Buenos Aires, Argentina) with Pierina Nochetti, who has been facing an unfounded accusation for two years due to graffiti that asks the question: Where is Thehuel? A young Argentine trans man disappeared on March 11, 2021. The criminal case initiated states that Pierina incurred the crime of aggravated damage against the heritage. As if that were not enough, the Municipality of Necochea, for which she works, sanctioned her by reducing her job category and cutting her salary. This is a political-judicial persecution that seeks to silence, discipline and penalize actions to make visible, claim and defend human rights. Faced with this scenario, the feminist and sexual dissidence of the collective of lesbians, bisexuals, transvestites, trans and non-binary groups gave visibility to Pierina's case, generating a series of gestures, interventions and public political demonstrations in the streets, but also in the social networks, where we can find an artivist collective under the name #abolucionparapieri. On this occasion, reflections and a video-creation en juntanza (15.59 minutes) are shared, made in collaboration with Memorias Disidentes from the materials produced by the artivist struggle of the collective #abolucionparapieri