#Eva Perón

[maximoffsgirl]

Patti LuPone as Eva Perón you will always be famous

[theginkosakata]

Evita Eterna

[anamon-book]

エビータ－写真が語るその生涯 マティルデ・サンチェス、青木日出夫・訳 あすなろ書房 日本語版ブックデザイン＝田辺卓

[librarianstreasures]

This book is the property of Eva Perón, May 2nd 1953.

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Found in 2023.

(Clearly it doesn’t belong to THE Eva Perón, I just found it amusing)

[therealkaidertrash21]

wait, I didn't read the cruel prince, but Jude's mum's name is Eva Duarte? EVA DUARTE? like Eva Duarte the first lady of Argentina, wife of Juan Domingo Perón? did nobody notice this?

I'm sorry, this is news to me and I never saw anyone talking about it

[carloskaplan]

Visita de Eva Perón a Santiago de Compostela en xuño do 1947

[ethanfreemanappreciation]

In 2004 Ethan returned to Evita to perform the role of Che in Bremen.

With Ethan's birthday coming up next month we thought it would be nice to look back on all the incredible roles he has performed over the years.

[hui-len]

[souvlakic]

[juliehowlin]

Eva Peron

There’s a working class suburb in the greater Buenos Aires area, Ciudad Evita (Evita City) whch was not only named for Eva Peron, but built to resemble her profile when viewed from the air. Today Ciudad Evita is home to around 70,000 people.

10 things you might not know about Evita:

[andrescasciani]

"Ostento dos honores: el amor de mi pueblo, y el odio de los oligarcas”. *A 71 años de la ascensión de Evita

Por Andrés Casciani

Acrílico sobre papel – 21 x 29 cms (2023)

andrescasciani.com

[theginkosakata]

Evita Eterna

[cinemedios]

Reseña | ‘Santa Evita', Miniserie

[mashounen1945]

English translation:

No, we're not a normal country.

Written by Estela Díaz, Minister of Women, Gender-related Policy and Sexual Diversity of the Buenos Aires Province. Published by the Argentinean newspaper "Page 12" on August 4th, 2023.

Link to the original article in Spanish: https://www.pagina12.com.ar/574430-no-no-somos-un-pais-normal

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As one of the pillars of its eternal campaign of discouragement, the Argentinean right wing insists on the idea that Argentina "is not a normal country." And as illustrated very synthetically by a spot replicated on social media, this may be true because it is a different, "wonderful homeland". It is also true in its contribution to the fight for women's equality, the struggle of diversity collectives, and the female leaders we were able to conceive.

It is not normal that one same country has generated Eva Duarte de Perón and the Mothers and Grandmothers of May Square, and in the 21st century, a female leadership like that of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, mass movements such as "Not One Woman Less", the International Women's Strikes, and the Green Wave for abortion rights.

It is not normal to have a popular movement such as Peronism -the most important in Argentinean history- represented by two couples of leaders: in its emergence in the middle of the last century, J.D. Perón and Eva; at the end of that century and the beginning of the current one, Néstor Kirchner and Cristina, who renewed the movement's doctrine as the link between love and politics was reinforced. The undoubtedly assembled personal affections intersect with the love for the neighbour and for the homeland.

It is not normal for societies to be so politicized, from the entire ideological spectrum. Everything is discussed politically in this country, and there's a role obviously played by women in that politicization. Despite having been confined for centuries to the domestic sphere, they always found a way to have that resistant, collective, fighting voice be heard. In Argentina, women were protagonists since early times in the struggles for independence, for equal wages at the birth of the labour movement around 1900, and for universal suffrage; the latter was crowned massively with "Evita" Perón with the approval of the women's suffrage law in 1947, and it was also materialized in terms of political organization in more than 3,600 local headquarters (known in Argentinean Peronism as "grassroots units") of the Feminine Peronist Party, and the first national and provincial congresswomen elected in 1951 in a most early precedent of the electoral quota that would have Argentina as a pioneer country in 1991.

It is not normal that, back in 1950, "Evita" had already proposed that housework be recognized economically, that it was invisible work and was putting women in conditions bordering on slavery. She anticipated a debate and proposals the feminist movement would only manage to develop half a century later.

It is not normal for women –such as the Mothers and Grandmothers of May Square– to stand up to our most atrocious and bloody dictatorship, turning turned the round walk into a march and the diaper into a handkerchief, the latter being a worldwide emblem of resistance to authoritarianism today; women who thus disrupted the history of the identification of women solely as mothers, a system that ensured women's subordination in patriarchal societies. From this socialization and politicization of the motherhood of the Mothers and Grandmothers of May Square, common sense was transformed and the horizon of popular feminisms in Argentina was broadened.

It is not normal that, for more than thirty-five years and without interruption, there are national meetings of women, lesbians, transvestite and trans people, who debate in a participatory manner and generate the largest manifestations in the history of every city of the country. It's also not normal for these meetings and manifestations to be repeated like rites renewing a movement that, in each historical context, gradually defines a political agenda that always defends the expansion and conquest of rights and resists the attacks in times of neoliberalism.

It is not normal for the first female president, elected and re-elected, after losing mid-term elections and Néstor –her partner in life and activism–, to reinforce his management decisions by deepening the "National Project" in a popular sense. She recovered the retirement and pension system, which had been privatized in the 90s, and implemented the Universal Allocation per Child, gay marriage, the gender identity law, the law on domestic workers' labour rights, and so many other laws and policies that, by 2015, had left the country largely free of foreign debt and with high levels of wealth redistribution.

It is not normal to produce a massive and creative social movement like Argentinean feminism, which has created slogans –the "Not One Woman Less"– and symbols –the white handkerchief first, the green one later– replicated across Latin America and the world.

What is normal is the right wing, in all its versions, attacking gender-related policies, women's rights, and the active presence of the State, expressed as women's ministries with some of the highest hierarchies and budgets in the world. Because the right wing knows the People's Feminism we embody is a movement that will confront them and offer effective resistance to their attempts to destroy our rights.

In a nutshell, it is true: we're not a normal country. We're a wonderful country.

[passionforfic]

Santa Evita: The novel & the series

In the second semester of my 3rd year of college, I took a Latin American History course in the second semester. As part of the class, we had to pick a novel from a list and do an analysis on it, on how it reflected history. I picked Santa Evita by Tomás Eloy Martínez. I had heard the name Evita and I had an idea of who she was. The summary looked interesting and so I embarked on this reading. Even though, I read this book in 1998 (24 years ago) and I don't remember the details of the plot, I do remember how I felt reading this novel that mingles journalism, biographical/historical events and the legend of the body of a woman who was loved and hated by her country.

It was larger than life. I was fascinated by her life and amazed at how the people kept her spirit alive. The story had its mystery and tension, and it made me want to know more about Argentina's history. I only read this novel once, but I have never forgotten the plot and how it moved from the "present" within the story to the flashbacks which usually took us to Eva's life (the bio aspect of the story).

How did I find the series? Well, Natalia Oreiro is one of my favorite actress of the Argentine novelas. I have been watching random episodes of some of her work and I saw that she had played the role of Eva Perón in Santa Evita. I quickly connected it to the novel and I wanted to check if it was a tv series adaptation of Martínez's novel - and it was. I didn't think twice and watched the 7 episode long series in a matter of a couple of days. I was fascinated by the story, just like when I read the novel. I loved the fact that the series was in Spanish, protrayed by Latin American actors and not like in the musical Evita, the film from 1996 with Madonna and Antonio Banderas.

Santa Evita (the Hulu series) hinted Eva's personal life but I think the novel - if I remember correctly - gave more details about her life. Still, it gave us a look into who she was before Perón. Her story, as well as the story of the journalist and those men who had taken those 4 Evitas, was intriguing and gave tension to plot. The novel and the series give us the sense of her effect on people around her. It showed a woman who had an impact on the people she talked with, how people felt special around her but that to her they were so many, she couldn't remember them all. Still she fought for women's rights and along President Perón, she fought to improve the poor and working class lives. This power couple were loved and hated, and their lives and political-social impact was reflected in both works.

Watching the tv series adaptation made me want to reread the book. Great novel and tv series. I recommend them both.

[blindsided-from-the-right]

The Argentine Iron Guard