INVESTIGADORES
MARENTES Maximiliano
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
A Multi-Families Album. Politics of Visibility of an Argentinean LGBTQ+ Family Association
Autor/es:
MARENTES, MAXIMILIANO
Lugar:
Melbourne
Reunión:
Congreso; XX ISA World Congress of Sociology; 2023
Institución organizadora:
International Sociological Association (ISA)
Resumen:
Despite Argentina passing the gay marriage law in 2010, LGBTIQ+ people continue to face juridical obstacles to becoming parents. Some who surpassed them created the Argentinean Diverse Families association (FAD as its Spanish acronym). FAD has three main goals: to promote modification of the legislation to facilitate LGBTQ+ parenting, to develop a supportive network to accompany families in the same situation across the country, and to make these families visible.This communication describes and analyzes one of the politics of visibility developed by this association: the creation of an Instagram multi-families album. FADs Instagram profile is full of pictures of different families, with gay, lesbian, trans, and non-binary parents and their children. Besides, FAD periodically posts stories on the same content and includes Instagram Lives of a program aired in 2021 and 2022. When creating this interactive multi-families album, FAD approaches its goal of visibilization. However, the politics of visibility involves not only posting photos of FAD families, but also reposting other LGBTIQ+ families, both from Argentina and abroad.I scrutinize three aspects of the politics of visibility FAD develops when creating this multi-families album. First, I describe the types of families this album portrays: age and social-class backgrounds, how many parents and their gender and sexual orientation, how many children, etc. Second, I reconstruct the logic of reposting to identify the original users posts: FAD members, other LGBTIQ+ ordinary families, and famous parents with their children. Third, I examine the comments and reactions of these publications to observe interactions.Based on the preliminary results of an ongoing research project, I conclude on the need of considering seriously the politics of virtual visibility to analyze both experiences of family-based politicization and how, by doing the family work of displaying their memories, LGBTIQ+ families are co-produced.
