Empowering Deaf Women

The 8 videos in Argentine Sign Language were finished and will be released on November 25 for the Day of elimination of violence in women.

Two video clips were made to be viralized in networks (photos of the clips are included) and a list of institutions related to the rights of women and people with disabilities was made so that the videos reach everywhere.

For that, a note was written accompanied by a sign language video:
"Hello women!
We are pleased to tell you that Monday 25/11 is the day of the elimination of violence against women, and we will take advantage of it to launch the videos in which we work together.
We appreciate the shared spaces for the production of these materials and ask them if they can share in the social networks the publications of Canales so we make the campaign massive and there is no woman without information! "

We will be sharing the videos on YouTube so that all women - deaf and hearing - have the same opportunities to access information and avoid violence.

Links:

• Canales institutional webpage

During the initial stage of this project, we organized workshops together with two NGOs, experts in gender violence and women's rights, aimed at Deaf women of a wide age range. Then, topics of interest were selected for and from this group of women and work was done in the preparation of scripts in order to record videos in Argentine Sign Language. The scripts were initially designed within the project coordinating team and then shared with the collaborating organizations responsible for checking the information dumped. Based on their comments, some details were modified and corrected and the corrected scripts were sent to the deaf women who would be the presenters of the videos.

To be part of the filming of the videos, we have called Deaf women who have participated in the workshops that were previously held. In the selection process, aspects related to the fluency in the use of sign language, its development in front of the camera and its interest in the subject were taken into account. Five women were selected to make up the team of narrators of the different videos and other women were invited to participate in small conversations.

Videos were recorded in Canales’s filming studio during two months.

Eight videos have been filmed:

• The presentation of the project
• Law 26.485: Integral protection of women
• Types of violence
• Modalities of violence
• Women empowerment
• Size law
• Freedom to decide
• Gender identity

Viceovers have been recorded and subtitles are being elaborated to add to the videos to guarantee access to ALL women.

We are in the last stage, the edition of the eight videos to be disseminated around Argentina.

Stay tuned to our next report!

Eight new videos will be on line for you to enjoy!

Links:

• International Women's Day