Disability and citizenship

¡No más caridad, queremos derechos, justicia y dignidad! Las marchas anti-teletón en Chile (2011-2021)


Ferrante, C; Pino-Morán, J y Vera Fuente-Alba, L


The objective of this text was to analyze the process of anti-Tele-ton marches developed in Chile in the 21st century from the perspective of its protagonists. Thus, we identify some of its milestones, describe the nodes of meaning regarding disability put into play, and examine some of its social implications. For this, we start from the contributions of Disability Studies and favor a qualitative approach. We conduct a documentary anal-ysis of primary and secondary sources of the pioneering groups in this fight. The results highlight four chronological milestones and meaning: 1) 2011, where the nascent Palos de Ciego Collec-tive showed a systematic cry of struggle: “No more charity! We want rights, justice, and dignity!”, 2) 2014-2017, with the gradual spread of criticism of the Teletón and dissemination of a rights-based approach; 3) 2018, where Acción Mutante criticizes 40 years of ableism from functional dissidence; 4) 2019, when the founding song of struggle became the motto of a march called by the National Collective for Disability, mobilizing more than 10,000 people throughout the country, within the framework of the social outbreak and ending in the request for constitutional recognition of this sector of the population one year later.


Ferrante, C; Pino-Morán, J y Vera Fuente-Alba, L , ¡No más caridad, queremos derechos, justicia y dignidad! Las marchas anti-teletón en Chile (2011-2021), Revista Temas sociológicos, 32, 301, DOI 10.29344/07196458.32.3278


https://ediciones.ucsh.cl/index.php/TSUCSH/article/view/3278/2858